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Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Agency and Evolution

Decoding the Gurus

CHAPTER

Exploring Emotions, AI Creativity, and the Challenge of Credit Assignment

The chapter delves into the influence of emotions on decision making and the debate on whether AI systems need a centralized self to modulate emotional factors. It transitions to discussing AI understanding, creativity, cognitive flexibility, and evolutionary imperatives, contrasting human and AI problem-solving approaches. The chapter also explores the exploration-exploitation dilemma in creativity, the role of randomness, and the challenges of credit assignment in intelligent agents.

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