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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deep reinforcement learning includes systems that reason over future causes of action and evaluate the desirability of those future causes. But in terms of the technology, right? Obviously, if you wanted to build that technology doesn't work in open-ended real world problems. It's not a good approach to this problem. So yes, you can do things with reward functions. But we should be thinking about systems that reasonover moral axioms. They're just not being explored right now. At least not at any kind of scale.

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