This is as crazy and scary as it gets. Up until now AI has been more or less running on millions of hours of rigorous machine learning without an ‘intuition’ of its own. While Google recently debunked a rogue AI behaving sentient in their labs, another AI research lab based out of UK the DeepMind has claimed its Artificial Intelligence can mimic a human baby! Cool right? Maybe! Dubbed ‘PLATO’ for Physics Learning Through Auto-Encoding and Tracking Objects, this AI learnt physics intuitively like a toddler.
Now this blurs the line between artificial intelligence and human behaviour as we know it. If an AI can be embedded with ‘gut feelings’ maybe an AI can become sentient enough to guy you too! The worst case scenarios should always be scrutinised before glorifying any research. That’s basic ethical courtesy rendered at the lab.
PLATO basically learns from a wealth of visual data which have been used in previous studies of visual cognition amongst toddlers. Understanding the physical world, the researchers state, is a critical skill set that humans develop and deploy effortlessly. Not machines though. Certainly not an AI. Unless pre-wired to mimic a mammalian or human physiological movement. PLATO raises the stakes with its intuitive learning abilities. However it is far from being perfect yet. Currently PLATO takes as little as 28 hours to dig through and train. It can also generalise objects.
Quite a visual learner this ‘AI’ is, would it be able to mimic a visually challenged child learning to manoeuvre though? It could. Only if we have the data sets on how these specially challenged kids learn. Loooooong way to go!
Source: in.mashable.com
