8 THE GLITCH
Researchers have created intelligent agents that can learn a wide range of tasks just by experimentation, often to superhuman levels of performance. The example of an agent that plays video games provides a reminder that these machines can take unexpected shortcuts, exploiting properties of their environment that might be unknown to us, and failing to appreciate the broader meaning of their actions. How do we ensure that this does not happen with those agents that we have entrusted with delicate aspects of our lives?
STORY OF A GLITCH
In 2017, a group of researchers at the University of Freiburg conducted a study that consisted mostly of replicating existing results with a different technique, a routine ...
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