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Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind
malachiorion writes Researchers are force-feeding the internet into a system called Robo Brain. The system has absorbed a billion images and 120,000 YouTube videos so far, and aims to digest 10 times that within a year, in order to create machine-readable commands for robots—how to pour coffee, for example. From the article: "The goal is as direct as the project’s name—to create a centralized, always-online brain for robots to tap into. The more Robo Brain learns from the internet, the more direct lessons it can share with connected machines. How do you turn on a toaster? Robo Brain knows, and can share 3D images of the appliance and the relevant components. It can tell a robot what a coffee mug looks like, and how to carry it by the handle without dumping the contents. It can recognize when a human is watching a television by gauging relative positions, and advise against wandering between the two. Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on. It’s a system that understands context, and turns complex associations into direct commands for physical robots."
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with obligatory typo's?
skynet?
1. Post video doing some pretty innocent action (watching tv, pouring coffee, sweeping the house) as having sex with a lamp post
2. Rick roll the video, so it gets plenty of hits and Robo Brain takes it into consideration
3. ???
4. Profit!
Hopefully the Youtube videos they are feeding it don't include the associated terrible Youtube comments.
Is this how the Bord began?
Thank you for all the technology but you crossed the line when you started to TRAIN the terminators how to beat humanity by giving it all our secrets and how we live!
Damn you, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!**
** of course, I say this in jest with heaping of sarcasm so large it could kill anyone because that is what it will eventually be used for...
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Great... Once they are sentient this will be able to instruct them on how to operate the implements of our destruction. Hope they aren't feeding it copies of the snuff video that ISIS just posted.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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cause this is how you get a skynet.
Does it obey robots.txt files? Uh oh, here come the copyright lawyers with a take down notice...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
What kind of lunatic does this?
I have this image in my head of someone buying a robot to do something simple like prepare food, having it browse YouTube for any mention of food and finding one of those ASMR videos of some random girl whispering into the microphone while she does simple household tasks, determining that this is in fact the correct way to prepare food, and then dragging the owner into the kitchen so it can whisper in their ears.
Roombas (and variants) are common household robots. YouTube has a lot of videos about Roombas cleaning a room while being ridden by a cat. Sometimes the cat is wearing a shark-suit.
Therefore, as this project progresses, Roombas will start to hunt cats in the neighborhood in order to get them to sit on top of them while they clean a room.
Or TFA is massively overstating the research and the concept and even robotics.
Robotic hive mind, just sounds like a bad idea.
We need some movies where the Robots and the Super Intelligent computer is the good guy for once. Just so we can get research grants and come up with neat new things.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Is there more information on this project? It sounds awesome, but the article seems quite sensationalized:
Researchers asked one of the project’s three robots to make affogato. The bot, a two-armed, highly-dextrous PR2, queried the system, and discovered that affogato was an italian dessert composed of ice cream and coffee. Without any human nudging or intervention, the robot located the coffee, figured out how to get it out of a dispenser, and poured it over the scooped ice cream.
Let's break that down.
A robot that can watch someone do something then repeat it would be the height of AI, as far as I know.
Software that can watch a youtube video and generalize what is a "chair" or "coffee" merely from watching videos would be beyond any AI I am currently aware of.
Software that can do that, PLUS recognize that what it is looking at now is coffee is completely unbelievable.
Software + a robot that can do all of the 3 above is not something I expect within my lifetime. Pure science fiction.
I'm sure there is a good project here, but I can't tell what it is from the sensationalistic article. I don't accept that it merely watches youtube videos and learned to make coffee in a completely unrelated environment. There has to be a lot more going on that just watching videos and generalizing.
Good luck with that.
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It's just Cartman dressed in cardboard boxes.
Combine this story with the "post ISIS videos on YouTube but put a Red Cross PSA in front of them" story and you get the beginning of the robot rebellion. At least they'll save our blood for donation purposes as they're killing us, though.
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And so begins our doom! This is some Terminator shit right here
I can see it now... I take my wife out for a romantic dinner. An attractive redhead sits at the table next to us. As our Robotic waiter comes to our table it takes a wide swath around to the other side of the table while repeating in a robotic voice:
"Attractive female detected! Target customer preference for this hair color/body type. Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP Avoid line of sight! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
May I take your order? Will your companion be returning? And will this angry gentleman be joining you?
I hope it doesn't have any how to basic videos on there. Otherwise you're in for a mean surprise when you ask it to make breakfast, or anything really.
Robo Brain will treat everything like a kitten attacking a laser pointer.
"Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on."
What about when a comedian sets his mug on a stool while on stage? Using the stool as a table rather than a seat.
Not that it's terribly important, but it's the sort of thing the human brain can handle, but might confuse a machine. There are also top load traditional toasters vs toaster ovens.
Even things like under the counter microwaves might confuse a human at first (at least finding the microwave).
I guess I'm just pointing out that there are lots of variables, but that also justifies why he's starting the process of "just sucking things in" so it has a good breadth of knowledge/experience.
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Well, if they couldn't design a system that willingly ingests it I don't think we have much to worry about :-)
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Will it know how to turn *me* on?
That is definitely the correct way to prepare food.
Sigh.
Another AI project.
Call me when it does something useful or unexpected.
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"The more Robo Brain learns from the internet, the more direct lessons it can share with connected machines."
So they are going to learn a lot about porn. Those will be some interesting robots...
The irony of this story coming up in close conjunction with the "beheadings videos" story is breathtaking. If this were a movie we'd have had our plot hook right there.
The point of this project is to resolve those issues.
Also the way humans distinguish those things is by learning context. This system is intended to understand context so if successful should be just as capable of resolving those contextual inconstancies as people are.
What's not really obvious to me is whether this project has any real chance of succeeding or not. The summary makes it sound like the methodology is to pipe the Internet into an ANN and hope for the best. That probably won't work (similar projects have failed).
IBM did something similar.. it's called Watson.
Robot armies getting the USR upload.
Yeah that's all we need... robots that learn to be "humans on the internet". Talk about an apocalypse.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a bad idea for an artificial intelligence project's web site to so prominently feature graphics with circles labeled "HAL"?
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I hope it will not see the fails compilations....
"Creating two slices of toa--ARE YOU TROUBLED WITH INCONTINENCE?--st at li--TRY NEW MOD STYLE DEPENDS! DELIVERED DISCRETELY TO YOUR HOUSE!--ght brown."
"Never mind, I'm not hungry anymore."
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Isaac Asimov liked to write about the ways robots could improve life, he didn't see them as the threat that Hollywood likes to dress them up as. Of course, when you're making a movie and need to save as much money as possible for the SFX budget you don't bother getting a good writer. The Autobots are "good", right? And in the (heavily bastardized) I, Robot film "Sonny" was good, too.
This is why efforts to produce usable AI have been hamstrung for so long. Everybody seems intent on trying to build Skynet, when skynet is not required. I believe a google search of images would be an always on database of images. Why does it have to digest videos? I thought Watson was pretty adept at understanding natural language questions and parsing them. Why re-invent the wheel?
Then we realize our mistake, and find a way to Crash it, only to cripple our whole society, since we have all become dependent upon the internet so deeply.
Go figure...
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