1: Reward is Enough

1: Reward is Enough

Published on Feb 21
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<p>This is the first episode of Argmax! We talk about our motivations for doing a podcast, and what we hope listeners will get out of it.<br/><br/>Todays paper: <a href='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370221000862'>Reward is Enough</a> <br/><br/><b>Summary of the paper</b><br/>The authors present the Reward is Enough hypothesis: Intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be understood as subserving the maximisation of reward by an agent acting in its environment.</p><p><b>Highlights of discussion</b></p><ul><li>High level overview of Reinforcement Learning</li><li>How evolution can be encoded as a reward maximization problem</li><li>What is the one reward signal we are trying to optimize?</li></ul>