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I guess they wanted to make robots less scary by rooting the story in the idea of babies. But it doesn't really achieve its purpose since there's still the obvi
by tw1010 9y ago
I guess they wanted to make robots less scary by rooting the story in the idea of babies. But it doesn't really achieve its purpose since there's still the obvious narrative of "oh, so what happends when the baby robots grows up into scary adult robots with all the greed and hate that that can be associated to". I think Googles Waymo took a better approach to framing the narrative PR around AI, namely making the robot feel like a toy or animation character instead.
- mtgx 9y agoWell, when the AIs are inevitably put in charge of a country's defense and another country is wiped out "by mistake" because of it, at least we can say the AI system that did it is a relatable cartoon villain.
- dan678 9y agoNot it at all. I saw this paper presented at CoRL last month. It, and a lot of other papers on the topic of unsupervised learning in robotics, draw on ways humans develop cognition, specifically, during early childhood. In projecting the scene forward in the visual spatial domain, the robot plans it's actions and learns from the corresponding results in a way that parallels what a young child would do to learn about the world.