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Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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How to Get Intelligent Behavior From a Eyes That Lack Curiousness

How is it that eyes that lack curiosity and a preference for novelty can cause them to fail to be able to do what would seem like basic things? Yes? So i'll connect here to an intuition that comes from a kind of human infant learning, which is that humans in a world that has these explicit rewards. And we've observed the same thing with animals. You know, animals will press a lever to get a food pellet, but they'll also pressing a lever to look out a window. Or rats will cross an electrified area just to get to a new room, just to see what's over there. There's this mounting evidence for these kinds of in eternal rewards wor these

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