On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 5:06 AM Charles Haynes <[email protected] wrote:
> > That's orthogonal to the goal orientation of the learner. > > Learning can be free of an objective. That's the best kind IMO and > perfectly possible in AI. > I agree it's possible to learn without objective, but in a world of research funding where learning costs money it is rarely so. The act of drinking coffee is deception, we fool the nervous system into being alert. The act of setting an alarm is aggression, we jolt the body into wakefulness. Aggression and deceit are unfortunately the warp and woof of most human behaviour, occurring even where we least expect it. So what motivates the desire to learn? There's the question.
