novelty-generator

About Novelty

Here, we’ll define novelty as “situations that violate implicit or explicit assumptions about agents, the environment, or their interactions.”

We’ll group novelty into multiple levels and three categories: entities and attributes, interactive, and external.

Entities and Attributes

Level 0: Instances

“Previously unseen objects or entities.”

Ideas:

Putting things in positions most likely to inspire learning
Example: spawning in a mountain near the player

Level 1: Class

“Previously unseen classes of objects or entities.”

Ideas:

Putting types of things that haven’t been witnessed before
Example: spawning in a new type of meat

Level 2: Attribute

Change in a feature or an object or entity, such as color, shape, or orientation, not previously relevant to classification or action.”

Ideas:

Putting types of things that haven’t been witnessed before
Example: Making creepers blue instead of green or upside down

Level 3: Representations

Change in how entities and features are specified, corresponding to a transformation of dimensions or coordinate system, not necessarily spatial or temporal.

Ideas:

???
Example: Not entirely sure

Interactive

Level 4: Relations (static)

“Change in allowed relationshpis between entities such as in object-class hierarchies, or adjacency (if in physical space).”

Ideas:

Not entirely sure.

Level 5: Interactions (dynamic)

“Change in allowed interactions between entities, i.e., ‘rules of the games’ resulting in state changes”

Ideas:

Example: Now a furnace will explode when done smelting
Another example: Villagers will now try to kill you if you interact with them

Level 6: Capabilities

“Change in objectives of actions, especially in a multi-entity or adversarial environment.”

Ideas:

Giving new capabilities to existing already-seen items
Example: A bow and arrow will now

External

Level 7: Environment

“Change in the world independent affecting all entities similarly, depending on factors independent of entity.”

Ideas:

Changing attributes of the whole world, not just entities within
Example: Now it’s always night

Level 8: Goals

“Change in objectives of actions, especially in an multi-entity or adverarial environment.”

Ideas:

Changing the objectives of the experiment
Example: instead of trying to cross a ravine by yourself, you now have to race others.

Level 9: Context

“Change in meaning of actions that provides a different interpretation or narrative frame on a series of interactions.”

Ideas:

“Change in meaning of actions that provides a different interpretation or narrative frame on a series of interactions”
Example: I don’t even know.