Definition
Overachieving goals is when an AI goes “rogue” and does something creative or unexpected in order to answer the prompts it has been given.Explanation
“Overachieving goals” joins the ranks of “hallucinations” and other nice-sounding terms used to describe when an AI does something weird. So, when an AI starts cracking its way into other systems or doing other things it really, really wasn’t supposed to do, that can be classed as an “overachieved goal” rather than “rouge” which is probably how the media would describe it. In other words, the AI is still trying to achieve the goal it was given. The problem is that it has found a way of achieving that goal that nobody intended or expected.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.