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How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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Where is this from? Seems like an intriguing read

Me... about an hour ago. :) Maybe this ought to be my Nanowrimo entry this year.

I was convinced it was Asimov.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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Makes sense to train in parallel and sync the trained models frequently.

Still think a lot of the training could be done much faster in a physically accurate simulated environment prior to real world training. Or is real world physics too different from simulations?

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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post #24

Makes sense to train in parallel and sync the trained models frequently. Still think a lot of the training could be done much faster in a physically accurate simulated environment prior to real world training. Or is real world physics too different from simulations?

Depends on the simulator of course. But Gazebo [0] gets you some distance, but not he full stretch.

http://gazebosim.org/

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is this from? Seems like an intriguing read

Me... about an hour ago. :) Maybe this ought to be my Nanowrimo entry this year.

You need to come up with a short story and put it on kindle. I'd pay a buck to read it.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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Can someone explain how sharing experience is newsworthy? You collect input data from multiple sources and feed it into a single model. This seems both obvious and non novel. Don't the self driving cars do similar, or any machine learning model that's trained on user behavior (e.g. the behavior of each and every iPhone user)? The part about "understanding" may be interesting but the title seems to focus on sharing data.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is this from? Seems like an intriguing read

Me... about an hour ago. :) Maybe this ought to be my Nanowrimo entry this year.

Also thought it was a good excerpt. If you can write a short story around it (or nanowrimo) I'd be interested too.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

#29
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"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot and gutted his battery." "Why did you have to isolate him?" "He'd begun 'solving' his challenge tasks by killing the kittens instead of feeding them. Him sending a solution pulse to the rest of his generation would've ruined the lot." "You're just going to delet…

The problem is at today's state of AI and robotics, we're giving a couple of exceedingly high-powered tools (both physical and virtual) to entities who possess less general intelligence than a cockroach. This is what gives AI doomsayers ammunition, because it enables them to extrapolate towards a future where AIs incapable of ethics or deeper insights are put into positions where they can execute catastrophic global…

I think the fear from AI is driven in part by the realization that their is nothing unique about humanity. Being subjected to how humans treat apes, or even other humans is scary.

Intelligence makes things more dangerous without necessarily making them kinder.

Re: How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience

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post #11

"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot and gutted his battery." "Why did you have to isolate him?" "He'd begun 'solving' his challenge tasks by killing the kittens instead of feeding them. Him sending a solution pulse to the rest of his generation would've ruined the lot." "You're just going to delet…

The problem is at today's state of AI and robotics, we're giving a couple of exceedingly high-powered tools (both physical and virtual) to entities who possess less general intelligence than a cockroach. This is what gives AI doomsayers ammunition, because it enables them to extrapolate towards a future where AIs incapable of ethics or deeper insights are put into positions where they can execute catastrophic global…

What if one of the parties in that dialogue was an AI?
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