Okay. In that case I think we agree. Like I mentioned in my reply to ChristianKI, I do feel that RL is an important mechanism to understand, but I definitely don’t think that you could achieve a very good understanding of the brain if you only understood RL. Necessary but not sufficient, as the saying goes.
Any RL system that we want to do something non-trivial needs to be able to apply the things it has learned in one state to other similar states, which in turn requires some very advanced learning algorithms to correctly recognize “similar” states. (I believe that’s part of the “supporting machinery” you referred to.) Having just the RL component doesn’t get you anywhere near intelligence by itself.
Okay. In that case I think we agree. Like I mentioned in my reply to ChristianKI, I do feel that RL is an important mechanism to understand, but I definitely don’t think that you could achieve a very good understanding of the brain if you only understood RL. Necessary but not sufficient, as the saying goes.
Any RL system that we want to do something non-trivial needs to be able to apply the things it has learned in one state to other similar states, which in turn requires some very advanced learning algorithms to correctly recognize “similar” states. (I believe that’s part of the “supporting machinery” you referred to.) Having just the RL component doesn’t get you anywhere near intelligence by itself.