ECAL 2005: Advances in Artificial Life pp 744-753 | Cite as
All Else Being Equal Be Empowered
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Abstract
The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we propose empowerment, a rather universal function, defined as the information-theoretic capacity of an agent’s actuation channel. The concept applies to any sensorimotoric apparatus. Empowerment as a measure reflects the properties of the apparatus as long as they are observable due to the coupling of sensors and actuators via the environment.
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Utility Function Mutual Information Channel Capacity Conditional Probability Distribution Average Short Path
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