Behavior Based Artificial Intelligence (BBAI) is a methodology for developing AI based on a modular decomposition of intelligence. It was made famous by Rodney Brooks and his subsumption architecture was one of the earliest attempts to describe a mechanism for developing BBAI. It is extremely popular in robotics and to a lesser extent intelligent virtual agents because it allows the succesful creation of real-time dynamic systems that can run in complex environments. For example, it underlies the intelligence of the Sony Aibo and many RoboCup robot teams. Methodology of epistemology. ... // Ai (as a word, proper name and acronym) can refer to many things. ... Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks (b. ... Subsumption architecture is an AI concept originating from behavior based robotics. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with robot. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Aibo ERS-7 resembles a small dog AIBO is one of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony; there have been several different models since their introduction in 1999. ... // Overview RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. ...

The most important attribute of a behavior based system is that the intelligence is controlled by a set of independent semi-autonomous modules. In the original systems, each module was actually a seperate device or was at least conceived of as running on its own processing thread (computer science). Generally though the modules are just abstractions. BBAI may be seen as a software engineering approach to AI, perhaps akin to object oriented design. Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ... A Device can be taken to mean: an electrical device designed to carry power, but not use it. ... Typically, processing describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing procedure (processing milk into cheese) or administrative procedure (processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan). ... A thread in computer science is short for a thread of execution. ... // An abstraction is an idea, concept, or word which defines the phenomena which make up the concrete events or things which the abstraction refers to, the referents. ... Software engineering (SE) is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains and other fields. ...

BBAI is often associated with Reactive Planning, but the two are not synonymous. Brooks advocated an extreme version of cognitive minimalism which required initially that the behavior modules were finite state machines and thus contained no conventional memory or learning. This is associated with reactive AI because reactive AI requires reacting to the current state of the world, not to an agent's memory or preconception of that world. However, learning is obviously key to realistic strong AI, so this constraint has been relaxed, though not entirely abandoned. In the theory of computation, a finite state machine (FSM) or finite state automaton (FSA) is an abstract machine that has only a finite, constant amount of memory. ... Memory is the ability of the brain to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ... A supervised child learning the countries of Asia on the floor of the central hall of the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through study, experience, or teaching, that causes a change of behavior that is persistent, measurable, and specified or... An agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own. ... Strong AI is a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that can truly reason and solve problems; a strong AI is said to be sapient, or self-aware, but may or may not exhibit human-like thought processes. ...

Researchers currently active in this area include Ron Arkin (who has written a book called Behavior Based Robotics) and Maja Mataric. Former researchers include Brooks, Pattie Maes and Bruce Blumberg. It was probably at least partially inspired by Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind. Pattie Maes is one of the originators of the use of intelligent agents in relation to media. ... Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927), sometimes affectionately known as Old Man Minsky, is an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MITs AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. ... This article or section should be merged with Society of Mind Marvin Minskys theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind is the product of the interaction of a vast society of distinct and individually simple processes known as agents. ...