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 ...
A the rate we're going, a fully automated car will be the equivalent of a space ship for vacation trips to the moon. Yes, it works well -- but nobody who would ever want to use it can afford the stupid thing.
F0AD?
Really?
Yes, sure, that’s where Skynet got it’s world view.
...and what if they figure that they fear -—
. —us?
And what OTHER emotions might be triggered or created BY the A.I.?
Are we sure they’ll be on our “side?” Or their own?
“I’m afraid Dave”
Next, AI road rage.
There is a company near me called “Sentient Lasers”.
Not sure if I like the idea of lasers being self-aware.
If it is important, run Linux.
You beat me to it!
Hi.
When does Skynet officially become self aware?
5.56mm
Teaching AI to ‘feel’ is the hurdle they aren’t close to getting over.
“A the rate we’re going, a fully automated car will be the equivalent of a space ship for vacation trips to the moon. Yes, it works well — but nobody who would ever want to use it can afford the stupid thing.”
It’s an $8000 option on a $40,000 car right now.
It’s impossible to teach fear to a program. Fear is a natural reaction to impending danger. It’s an emotion. The best a computer program can do is simulate emotion. Doesn’t take much to fool the gullible folks. A plastic mockup of a face, a color change, movement of the facial features, and walla the public thinks your robot is feeling an emotion.
If you really think you can write a computer program that can simulate emotion, I wish you luck. Would your program simulate the unfortunate effect a strong emotion has on reasoning powers?
Programming a robot to “be more careful” when there is potential danger is a noble task. But the program should be written so as to avoid dangerous situations, and thus not trigger the “fear” simulation.
100%.
The real question is who among the AI researchers and developers will be able to shed the low IQ idea that machines can have emotions or will.
AI can be programed to imitate fear not feel it.
GIGO rules.
OH, NOOOO! A squirrel!
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