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>Imho, curiosity is something fundamentally different than So what's it all about then? Go on, I'm curious...

• deepnotderp 8y ago
  If I knew then I would be in a pretty powerful position :) But at least some starting point: exploration-exploitation is basically chasing something with a better outcome, for example, if I'm working on some project, I might look at random websites for hopes of finding something useful for that project, on the other hand, curiosity would be me just looking at things that are "interesting". Right now in RL artificial curiosity research we use novelty as a heuristic for "interesting" but we haven't really solved what "interesting" is yet I think.
  • winchling 8y ago
    Right! Curiosity could very well be about optimising the structure of one's existing knowledge rather than finding out new things per se. A distinctly non-random process.