{"id":149994,"date":"2022-11-12T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/clever-machines-learn-how-to-be-curious"},"modified":"2022-11-12T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:23:03","slug":"clever-machines-learn-how-to-be-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/clever-machines-learn-how-to-be-curious","title":{"rendered":"Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3FHOyhUn3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can think of curiosity as a kind of reward which the agent generates internally on its own, so that it can go explore more about its world,\u201d Agrawal said. This internally generated reward signal is known in cognitive psychology as \u201cintrinsic motivation.\u201d The feeling you may have vicariously experienced while reading the game-play description above \u2014 an urge to reveal more of whatever\u2019s waiting just out of sight, or just beyond your reach, just to see what happens \u2014 that\u2019s intrinsic motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Humans also respond to extrinsic motivations, which originate in the environment. Examples of these include everything from the salary you receive at work to a demand delivered at gunpoint. Computer scientists apply a similar approach called reinforcement learning to train their algorithms: The software gets \u201cpoints\u201d when it performs a desired task, while penalties follow unwanted behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can think of curiosity as a kind of reward which the agent generates internally on its own, so that it can go explore more about its world,\u201d Agrawal said. This internally generated reward signal is known in cognitive psychology as \u201cintrinsic motivation.\u201d The feeling you may have vicariously experienced while reading the game-play description [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}