I'd be interested in reading your paper. Reinforcement is crucial for shaping behavior. But I also think the approaches may oversimplify things, although I can see why. Also, it seems like we hear a lot about positive reinforcement but less about negative. Eg: a man exercises to lose weight (positive reactions from others -- he looks better) and avoid diabetes (he is incented to avoid a negative). So behaviour is both concurrently. Though I can see now that it is not necessarily a simple matter to divide the positive and negative reinforcements.
Mike On 2/10/16, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking about writing a paper and I thought that I should > describe a method of learning that I want to use with my AI project as > ‘reinforcement’ because I realized that it could win a few readers who > liked the AI reinforcement concept. The problem is that I really > disliked the Behaviorist concept and I disliked how the Behaviorist > term had been applied to AI. I do not think the Behaviorist concept of > reinforcement is adequate to describe learning and the AI application > of the concept seems even worse. Then I realized that I was really > thinking of some kind of gradual ‘shaping’ of behavior which might > look like reinforcement but which would be significantly different. It > is not just a reinforcement of simple behaviors but a more dynamic > process of shaping the behavior by trying to appeal to the the > internal interplay of different concepts that might be related to the > behavior that was being shaped. I do not see AI behavior as a > simplistic series of actions that can be shaped by associating two > deterministic (deterministic-like) sub programs. I think behavior has > to be shaped by encouraging a much richer internal interplay of > different concepts that I (as the instructor) think the AI program > should know (or be able to discover) were related to the situation. > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
