> The idea of using "rewards" as a primary learning mechanism and a path to actual cognition is just wrong, full stop. It's a wrong level of abstraction and is too wasteful in energy spent.
A lot of research in RL is focused on intrinsic motivation and the question of whether we can bootstrap our own 'rewards' from our ability to predict and control the future according to some self-defined goals/hypotheses.
A lot of research in RL is focused on intrinsic motivation and the question of whether we can bootstrap our own 'rewards' from our ability to predict and control the future according to some self-defined goals/hypotheses.