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108. Last Week In AI — 2021: The (full) year in review

Towards Data Science

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What Is Interestingness?

Interestingness seems to be an important property that drives humans to learn. How do you define interestingness as a metric? It's this open ended thing where, you know, you're sort of just doing stuff cause it's cool. Is it like curiosity, or how does that differ? Yes, it's similar to curiosity. Only the big difference is like, not having te find objective, and having that objective kind of just made up on the spot by the agent. And that'sr without explicit objectives. So i'm sure it'll be one one necessary component at than ofe day.

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