This new book explores the difficulty of aligning AI with our values

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by on January 30, 2021 at 3:00 pm
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For decades, we’ve been trying to develop artificial intelligence in our own image. And at every step of the way, we’ve managed to create machines that can perform marvelous feats and at the same time make surprisingly dumb mistakes. After six decades of research and development, aligning AI systems with our goals, intents, and values continues to remain an elusive objective. Every major field of AI seems to solve part of the problem of replicating human intelligence while leaving out holes in critical areas. And these holes become problematic when we apply current AI technology to areas where we expect…

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MIT’s new ‘liquid’ neural network learns on the job — so robots can adapt to changing conditions

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by on January 29, 2021 at 4:35 pm
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MIT researchers have invented an adaptive “liquid” neural network that could improve decision-making in self-driving cars and medical diagnosis. The algorithm adjusts to changes experienced by real-world systems by changing their underlying equations as they receive new data. “This is a way forward for the future of robot control, natural language processing, video processing — any form of time series data processing,” said Ramin Hasani, the study paper’s lead author. “The potential is really significant.” [Read: How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland] Hasani said the system is inspired by a tiny worm — the C. elegans: It…

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