ClaimsDario Amodei

“The reason I focus a lot on reinforcement learning and why OpenAI focuses a lot on it is that reinforcement learning and things like it, the extended versions of reinforcement learning seems like a better fit for what intelligent agents do in general.”

Dario Amodei, OpenAI researcher, interviewed 21 July 2017 Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill (80,000 Hours) archived copy

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Amodei said that he and OpenAI focus a lot on reinforcement learning because it, and extended versions of it, seems a better fit for what intelligent agents do in general.

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Concerns Amodei's own reasons for OpenAI's focus, an internal motivation.

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Dario Amodei, “Amodei said that he and OpenAI focus a lot on reinforcement learning because it, and extended versions of it, seems a better fit for what intelligent agents do in general.” (said 21 July 2017). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_644f997dae99, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_644f997dae99

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