| ▲ | ilaksh 8 hours ago | |
The question of how emotions function and how they might be related to value functions is absolutely central to that discussion and very relevant to his field. Doing fundamental AI research definitely involves adjacent fields like neurobiology etc. Re: the discussion, emotions actually often involve high level cognition -- it's just subconscious. Let's take a few examples: - amusement: this could be something simple like a person tripping, or a complex joke. - anger: can arise from something quite immediate like someone punching you, or a complex social situation where you are subtly being manipulated. But in many cases, what induces the emotion is a complex situation that involves abstract cognition. The physical response is primitive, and you don't notice the cognition because it is subconscious, but a lot may be going into the trigger for the emotion. | ||