
Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Agency and Evolution
Decoding the Gurus
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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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