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17 A Preschool-Based Roadmap to Advanced AGI

• Appropriate Social Behavior
– Example task: The robot should learn to clean up and put away its toys when it’s
done playing with them.
• Social Communication
– Example task: The robot should greet new human entrants into the lab, but if it
knows the new entrants very well and it’s busy, it may eschew the greeting
• Social Inference about simple social relationships
– Example task: The robot should infer that Cassio and Ben are friends because they
often enter the lab together, and often talk to each other while they are there
• Group Play at loosely-organized activities
– Example task: The robot should be able to participate in “informally kicking a ball
around” with a few people, or in informally collaboratively building a structure with
blocks

12. Communication

• Gestural communication to achieve goals and express emotions
– Example task: If the robot is asked where the red ball is, it should be able to show
by pointing its hand or finger
• Verbal communication using English in its life-context
– Example tasks: Answering simple questions, responding to simple commands, de-
scribing its state and observations with simple statements
• Pictorial Communication regarding objects and scenes it is familiar with
– Example task: The robot should be able to draw a crude picture of a certain tower
of blocks, so that e.g the picture looks different for a very tall tower and a wide low
one
• Language acquisition
– Example task: The robot should be able to learn new words or names via people
uttering the words while pointing at objects exemplifying the words or names
• Cross-modal communication
– Example task: If told to "touch Bob’s knee" but the robot doesn’t know what a
knee is, being shown a picture of a person and pointed out the knee in the picture
should help it figure out how to touch Bob’s knee

13. Quantitative

• Counting sets of objects in its environment
– Example task: The robot should be able to count small (homogeneous or heteroge-
neous) sets of objects
• Simple, grounded arithmetic with small numbers
– Example task: Learning simple facts about the sum of integers under 10 via teaching,
reinforcement and imitation
• Comparison of observed entities regarding quantitative properties
– Example task: Ability to answer questions about which object or person is bigger
or taller
• Measurement using simple, appropriate tools
– Example task: Use of a yardstick to measure how long something is

14. Building/Creation

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