Maximize mindfulness?
By simply asking to "maximize the number of points obtained," an artificial intelligence broke the scoreboard of "River Raid" - an old video game. It needed to play "zillions" of times, something that artificial intelligence does in a few minutes. The method matters less than the final result. It became an expert at the game, forever.
It applies to any game. It doesn't need to be a little plane flying over little rivers for it to work. It has no fuss. Only objectives.
"Tell me if this lung X-ray has cancer." Also, trained with previous results, it became an expert forever.
Now the novelty.
When will they "plug" a neural network into someone or some people's feelings?
And I start with a simple goal: maximize not "points" - there is no scoreboard - but feelings.
Feelings that we can tell it are "better than others." (I know, sadness is as important as joy, I will pretend this wisdom doesn't exist to simplify at least the reasoning).
Maximize "warmth," "joy," "mindfulness." We can lengthen the list. It - the artificial intelligence - has no prejudice. It endures everything. It only wants objectives.
How will it act?
We can let it decide, this is the best answer, in fact.
But I started the thought of this post humbly thinking only about music.
Humbly letting just a Spotify choose playlists for us humans.
But then, less humbly, it already came to me: better yet to let it compose music.
Note that, like "River Raid," at every moment it scores, or not - measuring heartbeats, blood oxygenation, hormones, endorphins, synapses, face image, skin softness, everything.
You realize that such "movements" score less, that moving "this way" before "that way" scores more than the movements in isolation. It composes. Maximizing what? Everything good.
But even less humble is not restricting oneself to music, in the game of life.