wireheading
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The strategy by an artificial intelligence of meeting goals by altering the perception of the current state rather than changing the state itself.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mondo’s chaotic editorial blend ranges from stories on computer-chip jewelry to reports on computerized break-ins at automated-teller machines and “wireheading"--the implantation of electrodes in the brain."
- "The constraint is defined in terms of the agent's belief distributions, and does not require an explicit specification of which actions constitute wireheading."
- "The tendency of animals to short-circuit normal behavior in favor of direct stimulation of their own reward system is called wireheading."