{"id":168833,"date":"2023-08-01T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-agents-with-multiple-selves-learn-to-adapt-quickly-in-a-changing-world"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:02","slug":"ai-agents-with-multiple-selves-learn-to-adapt-quickly-in-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-agents-with-multiple-selves-learn-to-adapt-quickly-in-a-changing-world","title":{"rendered":"AI Agents With \u2018Multiple Selves\u2019 Learn to Adapt Quickly in a Changing World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-agents-with-multiple-selves-learn-to-adapt-quickly-in-a-changing-world3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So why not break the AI apart?<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2221180120\">a new study<\/a> published in <em>PNAS<\/em>, the team took a page from cognitive neuroscience and built a modular AI agent.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is seemingly simple. Rather than a monolithic AI\u2014a single network that encompasses the entire \u201cself\u201d\u2014the team constructed a modular agent, each part with its own \u201cmotivation\u201d and goals but commanding a single \u201cbody.\u201d Like a democratic society, the AI system argues within itself to decide on the best response, where the action most likely to yield the largest winning outcome guides its next step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why not break the AI apart? In a new study published in PNAS, the team took a page from cognitive neuroscience and built a modular AI agent. The idea is seemingly simple. Rather than a monolithic AI\u2014a single network that encompasses the entire \u201cself\u201d\u2014the team constructed a modular agent, each part with its own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168833","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=168833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}