wireheading

English

Noun

wireheading (uncountable)

  1. (science fiction) The artificial stimulation of the brain to experience pleasure.
  2. (science fiction) The implantation of electrodes in the brain.
    • 1992 January 24, David Wharton, “The New Edge : Magazines: The New Age meets the PC Age in Mondo 2000. The quarterly’s topics range from latest in high-tech products, jewelry and culture.”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 January 2025:
      Mondo’s chaotic editorial blend ranges from stories on computer-chip jewelry to reports on computerized break-ins at automated-teller machines and “wireheading"--the implantation of electrodes in the brain.
  3. (artificial intelligence) The strategy by an artificial intelligence of meeting goals by altering the perception of the current state rather than changing the state itself.
    • 2016 June 25, Tom Everitt, Marcus Hutter, “Avoiding Wireheading with Value Reinforcement Learning”, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science‎[2], volume 9782, Springer, →DOI, pages 12–22:
      The constraint is defined in terms of the agent's belief distributions, and does not require an explicit specification of which actions constitute wireheading.
    • 2019, Stuart J. Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Penguin, →ISBN, page 206:
      The tendency of animals to short-circuit normal behavior in favor of direct stimulation of their own reward system is called wireheading.

Verb

wireheading

  1. present participle and gerund of wirehead

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