Utility

Contributor: Fangwei Zhong

Reading list

survey/review/perspective paper book Encyclopedia

Required

Optional - Theories and Observational Studies

Optional - Computational Models

Optional - Sharing and Helping

Optional - Cooperation

Optional - Fairness

Optional - Ownership

Optional - Morality

Essay

Utility function plays an important role in human decision-making. However, those utility functions are internal to humans, lack a meaningful unit of measure, and are different across individuals. As a result, it remains difficult to estimate human utility of different tasks with a general computational framework. Given what you have learned from the reading list, discuss possible ways to learn and represent human utility and their advantages / disadvantages in data collection, generalization, and efficiency.

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