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The model is good. Environment -> Perception -> Planning/Imagining -> Acting -> Learning from feedback.

What is missing from this picture is the social aspect. No agent got too smart alone, it's always an iterative "search and learn" process, distributed over many agents. Even AlphaZero had evolutionary selection and extensive self play against its variants.

Basically we can think of culture as compressed prior experience, or compressed search.

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There's a ton missing from the article, and certain social training or skills are a big part of that.

Although it's not spelled out in the article, I'm hoping that the feature of agency along with an emotional system would enable constructive social behavior. Agency is helpful because it would empower AI models to meaningfully speak to each other, for example. Human emotions like empathy, social alignment, curiosity, or persistence could all help AI models to get along well with others.

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