Autonomous reinforcement learning agents must be intrinsically motivated to explore their environment, discover potential goals, represent them and learn how to achieve them.
<meaning-changed> Autonomous reinforcement learning agents must be intrinsically motivated to explore their environment, discover potential goals, represent them and learn how to achieve them.
Developmental machine learning studies how artificial agents can model the way children learn open-ended repertoires of skills. Such agents need to create and represent goals, select which ones to pursue and learn to achieve them.