Could the mistakes be only a special case of a more general trait of being prone to changing its behavior for illegible reasons?
E.g. for me, the behavior in video #3 does not look like a mistake. Initially it feels like a possibly straightforward optimizing behavior, similar to the case #1, but then the object inexplicably “changes its mind”, and that switches my perception of the video into an agentic picture. A mistake is only one possible interpretation; another can be the agent getting a new input (in a way unobvious to the viewer), or maybe something else going on inside the agent’s “black box”.
ah, yes! good point—so something like the presence of “unseen causes”? The other hypothesis the lab I worked with looked into was the presence of some ‘internally generated forces’ - sort of like an ‘unmoved mover’ - which feels similar to what you’re suggesting? In some way, this feels not really more general than “mistakes,” but sort of a different route. Namely, I can imagine some internal forces guiding a particle perfectly through a maze in a way that will still look like an automaton
Could the mistakes be only a special case of a more general trait of being prone to changing its behavior for illegible reasons?
E.g. for me, the behavior in video #3 does not look like a mistake. Initially it feels like a possibly straightforward optimizing behavior, similar to the case #1, but then the object inexplicably “changes its mind”, and that switches my perception of the video into an agentic picture. A mistake is only one possible interpretation; another can be the agent getting a new input (in a way unobvious to the viewer), or maybe something else going on inside the agent’s “black box”.
ah, yes! good point—so something like the presence of “unseen causes”?
The other hypothesis the lab I worked with looked into was the presence of some ‘internally generated forces’ - sort of like an ‘unmoved mover’ - which feels similar to what you’re suggesting?
In some way, this feels not really more general than “mistakes,” but sort of a different route. Namely, I can imagine some internal forces guiding a particle perfectly through a maze in a way that will still look like an automaton