Great post. I basically agree, but in a spirit of devil’s advocating, I will say: when I turn my mind to agent foundations thinking, I often find myself skirting queasily close to concepts which feel also capabilities-relevant (to the extent that I have avoided publicly airing several ideas for over a year).
I don’t know if that’s just me, but it does seem that some agent foundations content from the past has also had bearing on AI capabilities—especially if we include decision theory stuff, dynamic programming and RL, search, planning etc. which it’s arguably artificial to exclude. How would you ex ante distinguish e.g. work which explores properties and constraints of hypothetical planning routines from work which informs creation of more effective planning routines? This sort of thinking seems relevant.
Great post. I basically agree, but in a spirit of devil’s advocating, I will say: when I turn my mind to agent foundations thinking, I often find myself skirting queasily close to concepts which feel also capabilities-relevant (to the extent that I have avoided publicly airing several ideas for over a year).
I don’t know if that’s just me, but it does seem that some agent foundations content from the past has also had bearing on AI capabilities—especially if we include decision theory stuff, dynamic programming and RL, search, planning etc. which it’s arguably artificial to exclude. How would you ex ante distinguish e.g. work which explores properties and constraints of hypothetical planning routines from work which informs creation of more effective planning routines? This sort of thinking seems relevant.