Title
Challenges of Machine Learning for Living Machines.
Abstract
Machine Learning algorithms (and in particular Reinforcement Learning (RL)) have proved very successful in recent years. These have managed to achieve super-human performance in many different tasks, from video-games to board-games and complex cognitive tasks such as path-planning or Theory of Mind (ToM) on artificial agents. Nonetheless, this super-human performance is also super-artificial. Despite some metrics are better than what a human can achieve (i.e. cumulative reward), in less common metrics (i.e. time to learning asymptote) the performance is significantly worse. Moreover, the means by which those are achieved fail to extend our understanding of the human or mammal brain. Moreover, most approaches used are based on black-box optimization, making any comparison beyond performance (e.g. at the architectural level) difficult. In this position paper, we review the origins of reinforcement learning and propose its extension with models of learning derived from fear and avoidance behaviors. We argue that avoidance-based mechanisms are required when training on embodied, situated systems to ensure fast and safe convergence and potentially overcome some of the current limitations of the RL paradigm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-95972-6_41
BIOMIMETIC AND BIOHYBRID SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reinforcement learning,Neural networks,Avoidance
Situated,Convergence (routing),Computer science,Theory of mind,Elementary cognitive task,Position paper,Embodied cognition,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Reinforcement learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10928
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordi-Ysard Puigbò111.05
Xerxes D. Arsiwalla28417.84
Paul F. M. J. Verschure3677116.64