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Deception in Episodic Memories.
The Undesirable, Unpredictable and Unexpected Moments.
Episodic memories can be used to enable an agent to engage in sophisticated forms of deception.
But of course you do not need to have episodic memory in order to attempt to deceive others.
Simply having a policy of always denying that an undesirable action occurred or is planned for the future is a simple form of deception which requires no access to relevant memories or plans.
Deception in Episodic memories can be used to enable an agent to engage in sophisticated forms of deception.
It is of course true that one does not need to have episodic memory in order to attempt to deceive others. For example, simply having a policy of always denying that an undesirable action occurred or is planned for the future is a simple form of deception which requires no access to relevant memories.
More complex forms of deception would be difficult or impossible to carry out without some kind of episodic memory.
If an agent is to execute a multi-stage plan over an extended period of time, the agent will have to keep track of both what it has done as well as what it has already reported to others about…
