Guckelsberger C. & Salge C. (2016) Does empowerment maximisation allow for enactive artificial agents. In: Gershenson C., Froese T., Siqueiros J. M., Aguilar W., Izqueirdo E. J. & Sayama H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Alife 2016). MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 704–711. https://cepa.info/4347
Guckelsberger C. & Salge C.
(
2016)
Does empowerment maximisation allow for enactive artificial agents.
In: Gershenson C., Froese T., Siqueiros J. M., Aguilar W., Izqueirdo E. J. & Sayama H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Alife 2016). MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 704–711.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4347
The enactive AI framework wants to overcome the sense-making limitations of embodied AI by drawing on the bio-systemic foundations of enactive cognitive science. While embodied AI tries to ground meaning in sensorimotor interaction, enactive AI adds further requirements by grounding sensorimotor interaction in autonomous agency. At the core of this shift is the requirement for a truly intrinsic value function. We suggest that empowerment, an information-theoretic quantity based on an agents embodiment, represents such a function. We highlight the role of empowerment maximisation in satisfying the requirements of enactive AI, i.e. establishing constitutive autonomy and adaptivity, in detail. We then argue that empowerment, grounded in a precarious existence, allows an agent to enact a world based on the relevance of environmental features in respect to its own identity.
Guckelsberger C., Salge C. & Polani D. (2020) The Relationship of Future State Maximization and von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative Through the Lens of Empowerment. Constructivist Foundations 16(1): 057–060. https://cepa.info/6813
Guckelsberger C., Salge C. & Polani D.
(
2020)
The Relationship of Future State Maximization and von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative Through the Lens of Empowerment.
Constructivist Foundations 16(1): 057–060.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/6813
Open peer commentary on the article “Foresight Rather than Hindsight? Future State Maximization As a Computational Interpretation of Heinz von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative” by Hannes Hornischer, Simon Plakolb, Georg Jäger & Manfred Füllsack. Abstract: We formulate a critique of the Future State Maximization (FSX) umbrella term and its connection to von Foerster’s Ethical Imperative by considering the relationship between Empowerment and other principles that the target article relates under the same heading. We furthermore draw on the wide body of existing Empowerment research to substantiate but also contradict some of the claims made.