One of the remarkable feats of intelligent life is that it restructures the world it lives in for its own benefit. This extended abstract outlines how the information-theoretic principle of empowerment, as an intrinsic motivation, can be used to restructure the environment an agent lives in. We present a first qualitative evaluation of how an agent in a 3d-gridworld builds a staircase-like structure, which reflects the agent's embodiment.
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@article{arxiv.1310.3692,
title = {Changing the Environment based on Intrinsic Motivation},
author = {Christoph Salge and Daniel Polani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3692},
year = {2013}
}
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3 page, 1 figure, extended abstract of work presented at the Workshop for "Guided Self-Organization" 2013 (http://prokopenko.net/gso6.html)