This project was submitted by Rishika Bose. It was one of the top submissions in our AI Alignment course (Mar 2024). Participants worked on these projects for 4 weeks.
Shard theory proposes a view of value formation where experiences lead to the creation of context-based ‘shards’ that determine behaviour. Here, we go over psychological and neuroscientific views of learning, and find that while shard theory’s emphasis on context bears similarity to types of learning such as conditioning, it does not address top-down influences that may decrease the locality of value-learning in the brain.
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