The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we propose empowerment, a rather universal function, defined as the information-theoretic capacity of an agent's actuation channel. The concept applies to any sensorimotoric apparatus. Empowerment as a measure reflects the properties of the apparatus as long as they are observable due to the coupling of sensors and actuators via the environment. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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Klyubin, A. S., Polani, D., & Nehaniv, C. L. (2005). All else being equal be empowered. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3630 LNAI, pp. 744–753). https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_75
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