Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI

Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by atschantz on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:20PM (#18495534)

There is a large overlap, for instance, the popular VIME exploration algorithm [1] uses part of the free energy objective function.

However, free energy isn't a theory of curiosity per se, its posed as description of self-organisation. It just so happens that you can express the free energy functional in terms of epistemic (curious) and instrumental (reward) components.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09674

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Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by snrji on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:07PM (#18498282)

Excuse me, another followup question (can't edit on mobile): can you ELI5 how do exploitation and exploration "emerge" naturally instead of the tradeoff being explicitly coded as in RL?

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Re:Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to ... by snrji on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:05PM (#18497724)

I see, thanks. Is any AI research center/company trying to model this idea, instead of applying RL?

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