Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups - Recode
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Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups - Recode
'... Here are the five issues that Google flags:
- Whoops: If you train a robot to clean your house as quickly as possible, how do you ensure that it doesn’t knock over the lamp?
- “Reward hacking”: What if the robots cheat? Google wonders aloud if a robot could, say, sweep a mess under a rug or disable its vision (nothing to see here!).
- Reasonable human feedback: Can robots figure out how to improvise on the job — like toss a candy wrapper, but not a cellphone — without constant human oversight?
- Physical safety: We probably don’t want our robots shoving wet mops in sockets.
- Different environments: Once the robot learns to clean a room in a house, can the same robot clean an office?
It’s important research — before these types of robots arrive en masse, they will surely need to pass certain safety requirements. And Google needs to prove that AI is a force for good. The Google paper also nods to other important research topics like ensuring that AI doesn’t fall into “malicious” hands or “attack or harm people.”
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http://www.recode.net/2016/7/26/12260188/google-robot-ai-ethics-safety-video
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/26/12260188/google-robot-ai-ethics-safety-video
Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups - Recode
'... Here are the five issues that Google flags:
- Whoops: If you train a robot to clean your house as quickly as possible, how do you ensure that it doesn’t knock over the lamp?
- “Reward hacking”: What if the robots cheat? Google wonders aloud if a robot could, say, sweep a mess under a rug or disable its vision (nothing to see here!).
- Reasonable human feedback: Can robots figure out how to improvise on the job — like toss a candy wrapper, but not a cellphone — without constant human oversight?
- Physical safety: We probably don’t want our robots shoving wet mops in sockets.
- Different environments: Once the robot learns to clean a room in a house, can the same robot clean an office?
It’s important research — before these types of robots arrive en masse, they will surely need to pass certain safety requirements. And Google needs to prove that AI is a force for good. The Google paper also nods to other important research topics like ensuring that AI doesn’t fall into “malicious” hands or “attack or harm people.”
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http://www.recode.net/2016/7/26/12260188/google-robot-ai-ethics-safety-video
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/26/12260188/google-robot-ai-ethics-safety-video
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