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Is AIXI capable of recognizing itself? If an AIXI agent were controlling a robot body, would it realize that the body's actions correlate with its own intention
by Rangi42 13y ago
Is AIXI capable of recognizing itself? If an AIXI agent were controlling a robot body, would it realize that the body's actions correlate with its own intentions? Would it pass the mirror test?
- maaku 13y agoAIXI is capable of anything. Give it a utility function (and a pocket universe of computium to run itself) and it will learn behavior that maximizes that utility. That said, things like the mirror test are so wrapped up in the construction of our own brain that it really doesn't make sense to apply alien intelligences, as you'd you'd be unlikely to get a visible response for unrelated reasons. "That thing in the mirror is me, so what?" Actually that's a bit misleading - the AIXI will have no internal dialogue. It's not built that way. But give it any task, and it will learn to do that task. If that task is to recognize itself in mirrors, it will... but it will do so in a way that is markedly different from humans.
- runarberg 13y agoWhat is recognition? What are intentions? These terms are void of meaning outside of human context. So if intelligence is defined around those human-centred terms (that are even too vague to account for human-specific intelligence[1]), surely nothing will ever be considered intelligent but a human being. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
- AlexMennen 13y agoNo. It would probably pick up on the correlation, but AIXI assumes that its only interactions with the universe are through its input and output channels, so it cannot recognize that a particular part of the universe is itself. It does not know how to formulate that hypothesis.