the more sensible uses of the word ‘agent’ I’ve come across...
and taking that sort of reading as a kind of innocent until proven guilty.
I’ll confess I was in a meeting yesterday and someone (a PhD student) made the obvious error of considering RL prerequisite to agentiness, perhaps (but not definitely) a consequence of exactly the conflation you’re referring to in this post. Several people in the room were able to clarify. The context was a crossover between a DL lab (this mentioned PhD student’s) and the safety research community in Oxford (me et al).
What other, more favorable interpretations might I consider?
Oh, I mean to refer to the rest of the comment
and taking that sort of reading as a kind of innocent until proven guilty.
I’ll confess I was in a meeting yesterday and someone (a PhD student) made the obvious error of considering RL prerequisite to agentiness, perhaps (but not definitely) a consequence of exactly the conflation you’re referring to in this post. Several people in the room were able to clarify. The context was a crossover between a DL lab (this mentioned PhD student’s) and the safety research community in Oxford (me et al).