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The Archimedean trap: Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI Cover

The Archimedean trap: Why traditional reinforcement learning will probably not yield AGI

Open Access
|Oct 2020

Abstract

After generalizing the Archimedean property of real numbers in such a way as to make it adaptable to non-numeric structures, we demonstrate that the real numbers cannot be used to accurately measure non-Archimedean structures. We argue that, since an agent with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) should have no problem engaging in tasks that inherently involve non-Archimedean rewards, and since traditional reinforcement learning rewards are real numbers, therefore traditional reinforcement learning probably will not lead to AGI. We indicate two possible ways traditional reinforcement learning could be altered to remove this roadblock.

Language: English
Page range: 70 - 85
Submitted on: Feb 16, 2020
Accepted on: Sep 29, 2020
Published on: Oct 15, 2020
Published by: Artificial General Intelligence Society
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2020 Samuel Allen Alexander, published by Artificial General Intelligence Society
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