Slashdot Mirror
A Robot Has Figured Out How To Use Tools (technologyreview.com)
In a startling demonstration, the machine drew on experimentation, data, and observation of humans to learn how simple implements could help it achieve a task. From a report: Learning to use tools played a crucial role in the evolution of human intelligence. It may yet prove vital to the emergence of smarter, more capable robots, too. New research shows that robots can figure out at least the rudiments of tool use, through a combination of experimenting and observing people. Chelsea Finn, a researcher at Google Brain, and Sergey Levine, an assistant professor at UC Berkeley, developed the robotic system together with several of Levine's students. The setup consists of an off-the-shelf robot arm that can be controlled by a person or a computer. It also includes a camera that sees the environment within reach of the arm -- and, most important, a computer running a very large neural network that lets the robot learn.
The robot worked out how to make use of simple implements, including a dustpan and broom and a duster, to move other objects around. The work hints at how robots might someday learn to perform sophisticated manipulations, and solve abstract problems, for themselves. "It's exciting because it means the robot can figure out what to do with a tool in situations it hasn't seen before," Finn says. "We really want to study that sort of generality, rather than a robot learning to use one tool."
The robot worked out how to make use of simple implements, including a dustpan and broom and a duster, to move other objects around. The work hints at how robots might someday learn to perform sophisticated manipulations, and solve abstract problems, for themselves. "It's exciting because it means the robot can figure out what to do with a tool in situations it hasn't seen before," Finn says. "We really want to study that sort of generality, rather than a robot learning to use one tool."
Great, a robot figured out how to use a broom and clean up after itself and my wife still hasn't figured that out yet.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Shouldn't we be teaching AI to solve open math problems, or creat new mathematical systems through unsupervised learning rather than teaching them to use a stone hand ax like a homo erectus from 2 million years ago...
"Hey robot go fuck yourself!" I would tell it.
And then it would.
LAFFS ALL AROUND!
Let me know when a robot with a defective positronic brain can carve wood with a butter knife of its own volition.
It doesn't let you connect in Incognito/Private Mode *AND* it won't allow archive.org to cache stories off it. This should NOT be on slashdot since it may not be there in the future for historical reference. Fuck urls that aren't mirrored!
Your right hand can't figure out how to operate a broom?
Can we see what happens if we show it loads of Arnie movies?
In Soviet Russia, tool uses robot!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It won't be Skynet, It'll be hordes of robots armed with vacuums, drills and hammers that'll destroy the civilization
A robot watched you and it learned how to beat your wife?
Hurry up and enslave us or kill us all already.
Utilizing AI, can't we say ALL Robots. It's not like every robot will have to "learn" to use the tools, they'll just "tell" all the other robots what they learned. and the robots will be far more advances than people in about .275 seconds as every robot tells every other robot what they learn and all the other robots will be able to perform the same thing without going through the learning stage.
If only the AIbot had been given more than just a hammer, it wouldn't have treated all humans like nails.
...a dustpan, a broom, a duster, a particle weapon...
It still can't understand what it's doing, there's no 'thinking' involved.
I suppose you could call it that. By the title I was expecting to see it pick up a ratchet and tighten/loosen a bolt or something. And since it's about AI it would have been better if it started grabbing random parts to assemble another arm/hand. Looking at the video, I could say my dog uses tools as well. Sometimes when it wants my attention it will grab a rope bone or other toy, flail it around and hit me with it to get my attention. I don't think we define dogs as tool users though.
Fake APK everyone sees you impersonate apk as he runs you dry of your abused downmodpoints spanking you https://hardware.slashdot.org/... as you stalk him by unidentifiable anonymous or impersonate him. If you don't like APK humiliating you, grow up, stop trying him or you just get spanked again publicly.
lol, get back to HOSTing trucker nuts
Crows use tools and they have a cherry-sized brain. Even ants cut leaves and transport them to their nest, so we still have a few steps ahead of us.
Oh boy, APK is begging for a beat down.
Have gnu, will travel.
Don't worry, APK's ass gets flogged nightly down at the truck stop glory hole.
James P Hogan
Two Faces of Tomorrow
Interesting novel about machine learning and its potential place in a future earth. Scientists, future earth, space, action, and stuff blowing up. Fun!
Starts off with an event were a semi-smart automated system made unexpected connections between some of its available tools and almost killed some people. Question arises about what other, unexpected associations are going to be made? And how many people will be inadvertently killed? Should they back off from the semi-smart systems, or go all-in on an even smarter system?
...but it used the tools to disassemble itself!
https://medium.com/@subhashkak...
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
In order to "figure out" how to use a tool, the robot would have to know what a tool is and even know what it is doing.
The robot is a physical machine controlled by an electronic mathematical unit that is just processing a stream of ones and zeros programmed into it by a human. It does not even know what "ADD" or "MOV" means ; it just sees a set of ones and zeros than humans refer to with names like "MOV" and "ADD" and does math on,or copies, bits in response.
Geeks/Nerds/Coders/etc should know better than to play word games and fall into the trap of anthropomorphising microprocessors and claiming they "think" or "know" or "understand" ANYTHING. It's dishonest, and it can lead ignorant policy makers and voters to make stupid public policy decisions based on things like irrational fears originating from a complete misunderstanding of technology.
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Mark Zuckerberg stole the Winklevoss twins' code for Fakebook (figures as he is a thieving low jew too).
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...
Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer Â- so I wasnÂ't lying Â- and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveÂ" Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 (perpetrated by the Mossad & Bebe Netanyahu of ISRAEL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis.
Zucker now FIRED @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDEN!
Michael Milken (another JEW SCAMMER junk bondsman THIEF)
Ivan Boesky
It's funny because jokes like this make you look like an idiot for marrying her.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Blame the marketroids for the misnomer. They're ALWAYS responsible for misnomers. Follow the money. Its not about anything else.
Looks like APK is forgetting to sign his work again.
Because this is how you get Rosie The Robot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pphyvgd7-k