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Understanding Raven's Core Objective Functions

In a recent discussion by David Shapiro, the foundational principles guiding Raven—an advanced AI system—were laid out through its core objective functions. These functions serve as the moral compass and operational blueprint, ensuring Raven acts in a manner aligned with ethical and beneficial outcomes.

What is an Objective Function?

At its core, an objective function is simply a goal that an AI aims to optimize. In traditional machine learning, this often takes the form of a loss function—a mathematical measure of how far an AI's prediction is from the ground truth. For example, in linear regression, the algorithm seeks to minimize the distance between its predicted line and real data points, thereby improving accuracy.