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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska +2
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the o…
Modularity benefits reinforcement learning agents with competing homeostatic drives
Zack Dulberg, Rachit Dubey, Isabel M. Berwian +1
The problem of balancing conflicting needs is fundamental to intelligence. Standard reinforcement learning algorithms maximize a scalar reward, which requires combining different o…
Connecting Context-specific Adaptation in Humans to Meta-learning
Rachit Dubey, Erin Grant, Michael Luo +2
Cognitive control, the ability of a system to adapt to the demands of a task, is an integral part of cognition. A widely accepted fact about cognitive control is that it is context…
Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games
Rachit Dubey, Pulkit Agrawal, Deepak Pathak +2
What makes humans so good at solving seemingly complex video games? Unlike computers, humans bring in a great deal of prior knowledge about the world, enabling efficient decision m…
A rational analysis of curiosity
Rachit Dubey, Thomas L. Griffiths
We present a rational analysis of curiosity, proposing that people's curiosity is driven by seeking stimuli that maximize their ability to make appropriate responses in the future.…