Specification Gaming: The Flip Side of AI Ingenuity

AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment - Ein Podcast von BlueDot Impact

Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, even if not by this name. Readers may have heard the myth of King Midas and the golden touch, in which the king asks that anything he touches be turned to gold - but soon finds that even food and drink turn to metal in his hands. In the real world, when rewarded for doing well on a homework assignment, a stu...

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