Posted on 05/18/2019 10:58:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Physiological responses driven by fear help humans make critical decisions and stay on our toes, especially when it comes to situations like driving.
In a new study, Microsoft researchers build on this idea to improve the decision-making skills of self-driving cars, in effort to develop 'visceral machines' that will learn faster and make fewer mistakes.
To teach AI to 'feel' fear, the researchers used pulse sensors to track peoples' arousal while using a driving simulator.
These signals were then fed to the algorithm to learn which situations caused a person's pulse to spike.
'As people learn to navigate the world, autonomic nervous system (e.g., "fight or flight") responses provide intrinsic feedback about the potential consequence of action choices (e.g., becoming nervous when close to a cliff edge or driving fast around a bend.),' authors Daniel McDuff and Ashish Kapoor explain in the paper's abstract.
'Physiological changes are correlated with these biological preparations to protect one-self from danger.'
The researchers put the autonomous software through a simulated maze filled with walls and ramps to see how they performed with fear instilled in them.
And, compared to an AI that was trained based only on wall proximity, the system that had learned fear was much less likely to crash.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Soon AI will also develop road rage. Then the auto makers will install gun turrets.
We have NPC humans we don’t need NPC cars
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