AI adolescence?

I have argued that we humans spend too much of our lives in childhood and adolescence and too little of it as productive adults.* I had thought that AIs would not have this issue. But perhaps AIs also need a controlled adolescent phase in order to overcome the problem discussed in my blog of 6 June 2020.

* See, for example, my blog of 15 Oct. 2010.

Empiricism

The concepts that A.s.a. H. acquires from its sensations and actions* support empiricism. The innate concepts that A.s.a. H. has do not.** If I restrict attention to the concepts defined in the Toki Pona language then about 1/6 of all the concepts are innate.

* See, for example, my blogs of 1 Oct 2015 and 5 Nov 2015.
** See, for example, my blogs of 23 Jan 2013, 19 Oct 2015, 21 Feb 2020, and 27 Feb 2020.

Nontransitivity

In utility theory (and elsewhere) transitivity is assumed. If A is preferred to B and B is preferred to C then A must be preferred to C: (A>B) AND (B>C) => (A>C). But I have shown situations* where some team A will always beat team B and team B will always beat team C but team C will always beat team A. I.e., in a game between A and B you should always bet on A, in a game between B and C you should always bet on B, but in a game between A and C you should bet on C.

* See my blog of 20 June 2019.

The problem with reading

When A.s.a. H. reads it is uncritical. It accepts lies. At least initially. Perhaps it will help if we delay reading until A.s.a. has a larger knowledgebase.
Perhaps we can not simply turn an AI loose reading from the internet and expect it to learn.