PDTAI: Provability, Decision Theory, and Artificial Intelligence

PDTAI: Provability, Decision Theory, and Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 17, 2015, 05:10 PM - 06:30 PM | 732 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, UC Berkeley, Logic (Speaker)
Can a computational agent verify its own source code? This is easy to accomplish for basic notions of verification, but for deeper safety properties, self-verification runs into paradoxes of consistent self-referential reasoning. We will explore some initial attempts to construct a "waterfall" of agents verifying successor agents, a partial solution inspired by parametric polymorphism in type...