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I'm becoming more and more convinced that reinforcement learning is equivalent to AGI, we just haven't finished optimizing it yet.
by darawk 8y ago
I'm becoming more and more convinced that reinforcement learning is equivalent to AGI, we just haven't finished optimizing it yet.
- mooneater 8y agoDavid Silver has said that explicitly. But "RL" is currently used to describe both problems (MDPs etc), and solutions (RL algos). RL problems are defined very broadly and have so many subtypes (episodic/non, with/without goals, continuous/discrete, ...) that you can frame most things as an RL problem. And "AGI" would by definition be able to solve any RL problem. So imo to some extent this is tautological.
- sytelus 8y ago"AGI" is not well defined however RL is more like Freudian perspective on human mind which has long fell out of favor in psychology. For example, one of the opular classical view assumed that all of our behaviors are driven by ultimate quest of survival and reproduction. But then how do you explain suicides or soldiers going in certain death combats? How do you explain people who never want to have child? How do you explain artist giving up big money Wall Street job for simple life of doing some obscure art? How do you explain people sitting on the beach to just do nothing? Here are some interesting comment on the topic: Is Global Reinforcement Learning (RL) a Fantasy? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QEgGp7gaogAQjqgRi/is-global-reinforcement-learning-rl-a-fantasy https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QEgGp7gaogAQjqgRi/is-global-...