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The researchers quoted were explicit about this: > OpenAI researcher Harri Edwards tells Quartz that the idea for letting the AI agent flip through channels ca
by hahajk 3y ago
The researchers quoted were explicit about this:
> OpenAI researcher Harri Edwards tells Quartz that the idea for letting the AI agent flip through channels came from a thought experiment called the noisy-TV problem. The static on a TV is immensely random, so a curious AI agent could never truly predict what would happen next, and get drawn into watching the TV forever. In the real world, you could think of it as something completely random, like the way light shimmers off a waterfall.
The headline is really just inappropriate anthropomorphization.
- adammarples 3y agoPerhaps it should use prediction error on some higher level of embedding, that way boring changes like static would be treated similarly but genuinely novel things would be treated higher.
- p1mrx 3y agoThe article seems pretty incoherent. It's not clear if the AI was watching static or actual TV content. If it's static, then why bother flipping through channels?