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Goal-directedness via explanations

Aug 18, 2022 by Morgan_Rogers

This sequence records an ongoing attempt to formalize the concept of "goal-directedness", as an eventual foundation for analysing philosophical arguments for the risks from AI which are based on this concept.

Above, a selection of images generated on craiyon.com in response to the prompts "AI Goal-directed" and "Goal-directed AI". It was mildly interesting to observe that the former produced images with darker, blue-green backgrounds, while the latter produced white backgrounds.

21Goal-directedness: my baseline beliefs
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13Goal-directedness: exploring explanations
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4Goal-directedness: imperfect reasoning, limited knowledge and inaccurate beliefs
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8Goal-directedness: tackling complexity
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3Goal-directedness: relativising complexity
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