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What if your cooperative AI agent is actively avoiding you? Despite significant interest in having human and AI agents teaming constructively to solve problems, most work in the area focuses on the bottom line task reward rather than any actual cooperation between the agents. In many cases, where the task can, in principle, be completed by either agent alone albeit with additional burden (i.e., the task doesn't require cooperation), task reward itself doesn't give any indication of whether there is any actual cooperation between the agents. In a paper to be presented at #AAAI2026, Yochanite @biswas_2707 (w/ @PalodVardh12428 and @sbhambr1) develop a novel metric to analyze inter-dependencies between human and AI agents, and use that measure to evaluate cooperation induced by several SOTA AI agents trained for cooperative tasks. We see that most SOTA AI agents that claim to be RL trained for "Zero-shot cooperation" actually don't induce much inter-dependence between the AI and human agents at all. This calls into question the prevalent approach of training AI agents on task reward, and hoping for cooperation to emerge as a side effect!
You can read the paper at https://t.co/UYUMbsyEND
With Yann apparently leaving, is it FAIR now to say "Facebook is nothing without its people" ? 🤔#MetaComment #AIAphorisms
AI researcher & teacher @SCAI_ASU. Former President of @RealAAAI; Chair of @AAAS Sec T. Here to tweach #AI. YouTube Ch: https://t.co/4beUPOmf6y Bsky: rao2z
"I sometimes get the impression that the nattering nabobs of negativity don't want EM waves to travel at all! There is an exuberance for negative results about Luminiferous Aether that are plausibly over-interpreted" --A frustrated late 19th century Physicist #AIAphorisms
AI researcher & teacher @SCAI_ASU. Former President of @RealAAAI; Chair of @AAAS Sec T. Here to tweach #AI. YouTube Ch: https://t.co/4beUPOmf6y Bsky: rao2z
Given the over-hyper-exuberance of positive results that are definitely over-interpreted, it seems reasonable for a sliver of academia to inject some sanity given that the industry has no incentive to be objective about the limitations of the (evidently amazing) technology.
AI researcher & teacher @SCAI_ASU. Former President of @RealAAAI; Chair of @AAAS Sec T. Here to tweach #AI. YouTube Ch: https://t.co/4beUPOmf6y Bsky: rao2z
📣I'll be in Delhi mid-December--to speak on 14th at https://t.co/zAkyByzBmV in @iitdelhi. I may have some time the couple of days after that and am happy to meet with folks to discuss things #AI.. (DM/email).
AI researcher & teacher @SCAI_ASU. Former President of @RealAAAI; Chair of @AAAS Sec T. Here to tweach #AI. YouTube Ch: https://t.co/4beUPOmf6y Bsky: rao2z
Threw this in as the last slide of an otherwise near term technical talk on LLMs/LRMs (..as I was pressed to make some "predictions".. that I normally leave to "futurists"..)🤷♂️
AI researcher & teacher @SCAI_ASU. Former President of @RealAAAI; Chair of @AAAS Sec T. Here to tweach #AI. YouTube Ch: https://t.co/4beUPOmf6y Bsky: rao2z