creators_name: Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves editors_name: Berthouze, Luc editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Sandini, Giulio editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi editors_name: Metta, Giorgio editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2005-04-14 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:52 metadata_visibility: show title: Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity: a source of Self-Development ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: self-development, artifical value system, ensemble of experts, robotic learning abstract: This paper presents the mechanism of Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity. This is a drive which pushes the robot towards situations in which it maximizes its learning progress. It makes the robot focus on situations which are neither too predictable nor too unpredictable. This mechanism is a source of self-development for the robot: the complexity of its activity autonomously increases. Indeed, we show that it first spends time in situations which are easy to learn, then shifts progressively its attention to situations of increasing difficulty, avoiding situations in which nothing can be learnt. date: 2004 date_type: published volume: 117 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 127-130 refereed: TRUE citation: Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves (2004) Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity: a source of Self-Development. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4144/1/oudeyer.pdf