'Rote Adaptiveness', the capability of automatically being adaptive seems like an oxymoron and is also not as well investigated. But this capability is critical to General Intelligence.
How can a skill that is performed without comprehension be one that is also adaptive? This sounds counterintuitive, yet we see this all the time in the field of software development.
Decades ago, it was well understood that software development should not be executed not like a factory floor. Instead, software development is more like a discovery process. Furthermore, we can invent processes to accelerate this discovery process.
In other words, good software development involves the automation of discovery. So rote adaptiveness is not a vague idea but there are plenty of examples of processes that improve the navigability of the unknown.
In fact, navigation is an apt metaphor for rote adaptiveness. Effective navigation demands good tactics so as to avoid walking in circles.
The motivation why I find rote adaptiveness interesting is the realization that any collective intelligent whole must have adaptive parts to operate robustly and effectively. But the parts themselves cannot be intelligent otherwise we have an infinite regress.
So we must build a library of tactics that lead towards greater adaptiveness. Tactics that can be performed without the need of comprehension. Tactics that can be performed by non-intelligent parts.
How does one build a system that is competent in addressing uncertainty? At a minimum, you need something that can learn (without comprehension). This learning system must then train in contexts of complex adversaries. Does this not remind one of a GAN?
What I want to curate however is a library of adaptive tactics. I hope to discover a meta-framework that can serve as guidelines for developing more intelligent machines.
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