Observations inspired by your comment: While this shouldn’t necessarily be so, it seems the particular formulations make a lot of difference when it comes to exchanging ideas. If I read your comment without the
(although maybe “intelligence” would be a better word?)
bracket, I immediatelly go “aaa, this is so wrong!”. And if I substitute “intelligent” for “agent”, I totally agree with it. Not sure whether this is just me, or whether it generalizes to other people.
More specifically, I agree that from the different concepts in the vicinity of “agency”, “the ability to learn the environment and exploit this knowledge towards a certain goal” seems to be particularly important to AI alignment. I think the word “agency” is perhaps not well suited for this particular concept, since it comes with so many other connotations. But “intelligence” seems quite right.
Yep, that totally makes sense.
Observations inspired by your comment: While this shouldn’t necessarily be so, it seems the particular formulations make a lot of difference when it comes to exchanging ideas. If I read your comment without the
bracket, I immediatelly go “aaa, this is so wrong!”. And if I substitute “intelligent” for “agent”, I totally agree with it. Not sure whether this is just me, or whether it generalizes to other people.
More specifically, I agree that from the different concepts in the vicinity of “agency”, “the ability to learn the environment and exploit this knowledge towards a certain goal” seems to be particularly important to AI alignment. I think the word “agency” is perhaps not well suited for this particular concept, since it comes with so many other connotations. But “intelligence” seems quite right.