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| Software agents: Software agents are autonomous programs that perform tasks or make decisions. They can adapt, learn, and interact with their environment to achieve specific goals. See also Software, Computer programming, Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nick Bostrom on Software Agents - Dictionary of Arguments
I 133 Software-agents/superintelligence/Bostrom: For software agents, which can easily switch bodies or create exact duplicates of themselves, preservation of self as a particular implementation or a particular physical object need not be an important instrumental value. Advanced software agents might also be able to swap memories, download skills, and radically modify their cognitive architecture and personalities. I 350 An agent might also change its goal representation if it changes its ontology, in order to transpose its old representation into the new ontology; cf. de Blanc (2011)(1). Another type of factor that might make an evidential decision theorist undertake various actions, including changing its final goals, is the evidential import of deciding to do so. For example, an agent that follows evidential decision theory might believe that there exist other agents like it in the universe, and that its own actions will provide some evidence about how those other agents will act. The agent might therefore choose to adopt a final goal that is altruistic towards those other evidentially linked agents, on grounds that this will give the agent evidence that those other agents will have chosen to act in like manner. >Goals/superintelligence/Bostrom, >Motivation/superintelligence/Bostrom. 1. De Blanc, Peter. 2011. Ontological Crises in Artificial Agents’ Value Systems. Machine Intelligence Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, May 19._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bostrom I Nick Bostrom Superintelligence. Paths, Dangers, Strategies Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28