Argmax

1: Reward is Enough

February 21, 2022 Vahe Hagopian, Taka Hasegawa, Farrukh Rahman Season 1 Episode 1
1: Reward is Enough
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Argmax
1: Reward is Enough
Feb 21, 2022 Season 1 Episode 1
Vahe Hagopian, Taka Hasegawa, Farrukh Rahman

This is the first episode of Argmax! We talk about our motivations for doing a podcast, and what we hope listeners will get out of it.

Todays paper: Reward is Enough

Summary of the paper
The authors present the Reward is Enough hypothesis: Intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be understood as subserving the maximisation of reward by an agent acting in its environment.

Highlights of discussion

  • High level overview of Reinforcement Learning
  • How evolution can be encoded as a reward maximization problem
  • What is the one reward signal we are trying to optimize?
Show Notes

This is the first episode of Argmax! We talk about our motivations for doing a podcast, and what we hope listeners will get out of it.

Todays paper: Reward is Enough

Summary of the paper
The authors present the Reward is Enough hypothesis: Intelligence, and its associated abilities, can be understood as subserving the maximisation of reward by an agent acting in its environment.

Highlights of discussion

  • High level overview of Reinforcement Learning
  • How evolution can be encoded as a reward maximization problem
  • What is the one reward signal we are trying to optimize?