Equation 8 · Part 1 · The Main Technical Approaches to AI Alignment, Compared
Symbol H
What this part means
H is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
H is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
…a hard problem, it never asks any one evaluator to face the hard problem directly. Christiano, Shlegeris, and Amodei describe a scheme they call Amplify: a composite system, written , “consisting of H and several copies of X working together to solve a problem,” in which H — standing in for a human overseer — breaks a hard question into useful subquestions, has several copies of the current trained agent X answer each subquestion, and then combines the subanswers into a response to the…
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