Toward a Community of Evolving Learners
Elizabeth I Sklar, Jordan B. Pollack · 1999
: We discuss the co-evolutionary learning method, applied to human learning, as a means toward a mediated, competitively motivated, educational environment on the Internet. This method was developed in our work with machine learners, where we have been examining environmental characteristics that enable successful and effective learning through "self-play" in games. Critical features include the ability to provide tasks consistently just beyond or just within a learner's grasp. We carry these observations into the human education arena, using them to help us enable a Community of Evolving Learners (CEL) on the Internet. This paper describes the design of the CEL system. 1. Introduction In a machine learning system, the learner is a computer program (also called a software agent or just agent), and the goal is to produce agents that learn to perform intelligent tasks, expanding their own capabilities as they run, without needing human programmers to update them. In artificial co-evolu...