emergent behaviour still requires somthing in the rules allowing it. I'm not sure where the baldurs gate thing is from.. I don't remember anything like that in the game.
While the orcs aren't told to climb the wall, but the path to get their either existed, or the mechanism to make it exist was within their grasp. They didn't 'learn' anything.
In most cases, you see this with so-called 'learning AI' which will base their future actions on the success of the past.. Cutting down trees to access the back of a base might have been a mistake the first time, due to a base existing there.. but over time, it is possible that it will realize that chopping trees near the base of the play can net a positive result.
They won't, however, learn to hack the system, or just change variables to allow an instant win. It isn't within their field of understanding.
Most robots of the future, those designed to do specific jobs, won't have the required understanding to make the classic jump of "Human hurts human, kill all humans."
A-life, on the other hand might, but they won't be charged with the same goals.. You wouldn't make an A-life soldier.. that's just a bad idea...
While the orcs aren't told to climb the wall, but the path to get their either existed, or the mechanism to make it exist was within their grasp. They didn't 'learn' anything.
In most cases, you see this with so-called 'learning AI' which will base their future actions on the success of the past.. Cutting down trees to access the back of a base might have been a mistake the first time, due to a base existing there.. but over time, it is possible that it will realize that chopping trees near the base of the play can net a positive result.
They won't, however, learn to hack the system, or just change variables to allow an instant win. It isn't within their field of understanding.
Most robots of the future, those designed to do specific jobs, won't have the required understanding to make the classic jump of "Human hurts human, kill all humans."
A-life, on the other hand might, but they won't be charged with the same goals.. You wouldn't make an A-life soldier.. that's just a bad idea...