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Tasks are assigned, Goals are desired.

These definitions and their distinction are particular and important in AI. The mistaken usage of these terms by machine learning experts does not change their global definition.

> Your left is my right, and with you definition “get laid” is a task from the point of view of evolution and a goal from the point of view of an organism.

Get laid is a task, not a goal. Reproduction is a task, not a goal. The goal is pleasure.



> The mistaken usage of these terms by machine learning experts does not change their global definition.

Ah, I see you’re a linguistic prescriptivist.

I can’t see your definition in any dictionary, which spoils the effect, but it’s common enough to be one.

> The goal is pleasure.

Evolution is the form of intelligence that created biological neural networks, and simulated evolution is sometimes used to set weights on artificial neural nets.

From evolution’s perspective, if you can excuse the anthropomorphisation, reproduction is the goal. Evolution doesn’t care if we are having fun, and once animals (including humans) pass reproductive age, we go wrong in all kinds of different and unpleasant ways.




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