Episode 31: Bill Thompson, UC Berkeley, on how cultural evolution shapes knowledge acquisition
Generally Intelligent
The Importance of Agents in Learning
I think one interesting thing that it evokes for me is that AI systems don't have to transmit. You can just clone them and then continue training. And so there's this interesting idea of kind of like in humans, the learning is distributed because we are individual agents. It makes me wonder whether that is a purely human phenomenon or whether like machines will get stuck doing the same behaviors as well. If there's not like proliferation of maybe you clone the same agent, they'll do a bunch of different things. But now the agent diverge and you need some way for them to re-communicate with each other. Like how important is that process in learning and the development of new concepts
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