Intelligence as inference or forcing Occam on the world

Peter Sunehag, Marcus Hutter

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    Abstract

    We propose to perform the optimization task of Universal Artificial Intelligence (UAI) through learning a reference machine on which good programs are short. Further, we also acknowledge that the choice of reference machine that the UAI objective is based on is arbitrary and, therefore, we learn a suitable machine for the environment we are in. This is based on viewing Occam's razor as an imperative instead of as a proposition about the world. Since this principle cannot be true for all reference machines, we need to find a machine that makes the principle true. We both want good policies and the environment to have short implementations on the machine. Such a machine is learnt iteratively through a procedure that generalizes the principle underlying the Expectation-Maximization algorithm.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationArtificial General Intelligence - 7th International Conference, AGI 2014, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages186-195
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)9783319092737
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event7th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2014 - Quebec City, QC, Canada
    Duration: 1 Aug 20144 Aug 2014

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume8598 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference7th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2014
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityQuebec City, QC
    Period1/08/144/08/14

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