[HN Gopher] Greedy AI agents learn to cooperate
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       Greedy AI agents learn to cooperate
        
       Author : ystad
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-09-06 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Zenst wrote:
       | Interesting and initial thoughts of a hive-mind type approach do
       | seem to be the net result in which the sum of the collective is
       | enabled to perform tasks no individual could.
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       | One further upside of this approach would in effect allow and
       | open up a way for different AI systems to integrate and
       | collaborate
        
       | ruined wrote:
       | this is it. the singularity. ai has finally surpassed human
       | intelligence
        
         | eevilspock wrote:
         | i see what you did there.
        
         | wongarsu wrote:
         | There are plenty of prime examples of greedy humans
         | cooperating. Corruption, cartels, price fixing, collusion in
         | general, ...
         | 
         | More seriously: one of the major struggles of society is
         | setting up incentive structures that align the interests of the
         | individual with that of the group, so even people acting in
         | their own self interest still contribute to the greater whole.
         | We only managed to go to the moon because we managed to turn an
         | utterly selfish ideological struggle into a space race.
        
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