Open-ended AI is blocked by a vocabulary gap (inventing reusable primitives) and a verifier gap (valuing them when payoff is delayed), unified under cognitive discrepancy reduction and a four-level autonomy ladder.
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Beyond Fixed Representations: The Vocabulary and Verifier Gaps in Open-Ended AI
Open-ended AI is blocked by a vocabulary gap (inventing reusable primitives) and a verifier gap (valuing them when payoff is delayed), unified under cognitive discrepancy reduction and a four-level autonomy ladder.