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Episode 18: Oleh Rybkin, UPenn, on exploration and planning with world models

Generally Intelligent

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Plan to Explore

Plan to explore is a book about the idea of optimal experimental design. The concept was invented in 19 56 by schmit huber, and has been used for many other things including learning. It's based on an idea that humans try to construct models of how the world works. And we do that in falso to situations, not just scientifically. To test your hypothesis, you first nek to have a hypothesis, right? So what's your hypothesis? Well, that can be immoral. In fact, if your moral cause is wrong, well, why would you try to find out in which exact way it's wrong? But that's exactly the concept of information gain. You can use

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