Earlier this month a self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas patiently waited as a delivery truck backed up, then backed up some more, then backed right into it. Inconveniently for the roboshuttle’s developer Navya, this happened within hours of the shuttle’s inauguration ceremony. The real problem is that the shuttle can’t learn from the incident the way a human would: immediately and without forgetting how to do everything else in the process.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to change the way AI works through a program it calls L2M, or Lifelong Learning Machines. The agency is looking for systems that learn continuously, adapt to new tasks, and know what to learn and when. “We want the rigor of automation with the flexibility of the human,” says the program’s director Hava T. Siegelmann. The US $65-million program has already chosen 16 groups for 4-year projects, but according to Siegelmann there is still opportunity to propose 12- or 18-month projects.
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4 comments:
I don't see how it couldn't be, humans must look pretty bad to outsiders...
No more elections.
And in Japan someone want computer to be "creative", in order to substitute human creatives.
The day from a factory exit an a "creative" android, this will be more destructive than an atomic bomb.
Young Communist,
Are you going to engage in a Butlerian Jihad?
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