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Maybe someday the AI will be clever enough to predict the plotlines and get bored.
Why? You know the plotline of your life as well. You will become old, suffer and die at the end. Are you bored?
This trait must serve us in some capacity. You see this with children and iPads. My kids know 3x what I did when I was their same age. It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. No wonder they get angry when it's time to put away the iPad - they're engaged at a high level. Much like when I am programming on a sideproject and my focus is…
I actually researched writing a proxy that would intercept and rewrite Youtube's JSON API responses with pre-selected, educational videos. This is how much I hate their recommendation algorithm. That way, the Youtube app appears to work the same. It's just that those videos that are blacklisted in the recommendation response, e.g. all the videos with the word 'minecraft' in the title, would be replaced with Youtube s…
This happens at all levels of sensory processing, from single cell firing (which is noisy) to the boredom you feel with a 100 channels of TV that are all technically novel to you but contain nothing remotely interesting.
Basically if you've built an agent that can be perpetually distracted by noise or a "noisy" TV then you've forgotten an important piece of the puzzle.
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I actually researched writing a proxy that would intercept and rewrite Youtube's JSON API responses with pre-selected, educational videos. This is how much I hate their recommendation algorithm. That way, the Youtube app appears to work the same. It's just that those videos that are blacklisted in the recommendation response, e.g. all the videos with the word 'minecraft' in the title, would be replaced with Youtube s…
Have you considered YT kids?
If someone watches one Blue's Clues video, ten more are recommended afterwards.
I want a more diverse set of recommendations from a smaller set of educational channels.
And I want to filter entirely by keyword. Disabling individual channels for something like 'Minecraft' content is futile.
With the definition of curiosity from the article, it’s not that surprising? A dynamic “screen” is always more interesting than the static map. Definition: The definition that OpenAI team used for artificial curiosity was relatively simple: The algorithm would try to predict what its environment would look like one frame into the future. When that next frame happened, the algorithm would be rewarded by how wrong it w…
There's clearly a sweet spot in the amount of entropy/unpredictability that is "interesting". Otherwise observing white noise would be the most interesting thing imaginable. I don't know the details, but probably you would want to seek unpredictability in a higher level representation of the observed state. White noise is highly unpredictable per pixel, but will get a very predictable representation after a layer or…
> White noise is highly unpredictable per pixel, but will get a very predictable representation after a layer or two of featurization if the features are trained/designed for real world observations.
Virtually anything that cannot be predicted is interesting by nature of being unpredictable. Is it truly random? How, or why? True randomness is rare, and its existence is interesting.
TV static is uninteresting because it isn't actually random, it's just too onerous to get the measurements to predict it for the value we would get. It's part of the large class of things that is random for practical purposes, but not truly random. I have no doubt that if humanity dumped all its resources into predicting static, NASA could measure inbound radio waves and/or model space to figure out what static would look like at a particular spot.
Notably, humans find the cause of static (partially various waves from space) fascinating because we can't predict them. We've just placed our interest down a layer of abstraction from static. Static is boring, the source of static is interesting.
I suspect it is truly random to the AI, though, because it has no means to "see" those radio waves. I would wager humans would be far more interested in static if we were also unable to see the causality between radio waves and static.
I would be interested to see if the AI was as interested in static if it was also provided a real-time feed of radio waves at the antenna. Would it figure out that those things are correlated and lose interest in static like humans have, or would it continue to find static fascinating despite knowing it's a basic causality?
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> It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. There's a problem with your line of thinking. E.g., I remember the epiphany when I realized that a particular C codebase was an implementation of a (more or less) object-oriented dynamic programming language. Ooh, here's the part that implements classes. Here's the part that instantiates the…
There's also a problem with your line of thinking: you are not a child. You do not have the neuroplasticity they do. Their brains are learning in ways that we simply cannot any longer; it' a real apples:oranges situation.
This trait must serve us in some capacity. You see this with children and iPads. My kids know 3x what I did when I was their same age. It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. No wonder they get angry when it's time to put away the iPad - they're engaged at a high level. Much like when I am programming on a sideproject and my focus is…
> It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. There's a problem with your line of thinking. E.g., I remember the epiphany when I realized that a particular C codebase was an implementation of a (more or less) object-oriented dynamic programming language. Ooh, here's the part that implements classes. Here's the part that instantiates the…
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Short-form media is not necessarily bad. Like all forms of media, it can be a useful learning tool or it can be a massive time sink. Social media has just weaponized it to optimize for engagement at all costs.
it really depends on what you want to learn. personally I don't believe that 5 minute trivia is going to be worth a dime in the AI ridden world Og tomorrow.
This trait must serve us in some capacity. You see this with children and iPads. My kids know 3x what I did when I was their same age. It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. No wonder they get angry when it's time to put away the iPad - they're engaged at a high level. Much like when I am programming on a sideproject and my focus is…
I actually researched writing a proxy that would intercept and rewrite Youtube's JSON API responses with pre-selected, educational videos. This is how much I hate their recommendation algorithm. That way, the Youtube app appears to work the same. It's just that those videos that are blacklisted in the recommendation response, e.g. all the videos with the word 'minecraft' in the title, would be replaced with Youtube s…