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Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Learning by Imitating

Learning by imitation can be difficult in an environment where there are a lot of other cars on the road. The actual reward function, so to speak, of a driver is pretty simple. It's more concise and parsimonious to express the goal of the driver than it is to map the inputs to outputs at that level.

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