I like this post overall. I’d guess that connectionism is the real-world way to do things, but I don’t think I’m quite as confident that there aren’t alternatives. I basically agree with the main points, though.
to mind control a [maze-solving agent] to pursue whatever you want with just a single activation
I want to flag that this isn’t quite what we demonstrated. It’s overselling our results a bit. Specifically, we can’t get the maze-solving agent to go “wherever we want” via the demonstrated method. Rather, in many mazes, I’d estimate we can retarget the agent to end up in about half of the maze locations. Probably a slight edit would fix this, like changing “whatever you want” to “a huge range of goals.”
I like this post overall. I’d guess that connectionism is the real-world way to do things, but I don’t think I’m quite as confident that there aren’t alternatives. I basically agree with the main points, though.
I want to flag that this isn’t quite what we demonstrated. It’s overselling our results a bit. Specifically, we can’t get the maze-solving agent to go “wherever we want” via the demonstrated method. Rather, in many mazes, I’d estimate we can retarget the agent to end up in about half of the maze locations. Probably a slight edit would fix this, like changing “whatever you want” to “a huge range of goals.”