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More capable AI agents are more likely to find and exploit flaws in their reward functions.

Drawn from what Lilian Weng said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.

reinforcement learning Training by reward: environments, verifiable tasks, value functions, and whether it works or merely beats what came before.

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What Lilian Weng actually said

  1. Lilian Weng Machine-learning researcher
    A more intelligent agent is more capable of finding "holes" in the design of reward function and exploiting the task specification-in other words, achieving higher proxy rewards but lower true rewards.

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