
22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope
AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast
The Future of Cognitive Flexibility in AI
Cognitive flexibility and being able to adapt to new contexts is I think quite a powerful mental tool yeah. A text model that always diverts every conversation into a discussion of a wedding party say is like not very useful as a text model. One of my slightly heterodox perspectives on what goals and values are is that you shouldn't view humans as having fixed goals but rather conditional transition functions between goals. You could sort of imaginelike a little little hidden mark off model or a finite automata that has states of goal pursuing x goal and then conditional on y input or z thought pattern or so on transitions into pursuing other goal.
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