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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
What Should AI Researchers Work on Today
to Achieve Super Intelligence?
Ithink we need to work on that there is two-dimensional territory own needs, understand the world
architectures of intelligent beings, in the real world - it didn’t know that in which they live (be it the cloud or
whether they live in the real world or a real world exists. So AlphaGo was the physical world) and ensure their
in cyber space. And I think that we very different from Lee Sedol who is ongoing existence. A Roomba does
need to work on structured modules a living, breathing human who takes a little of this, finding its recharger
that will give the base compositional care of his existence in the world. when it is low on power, indicating
capabilities, ground everything in to humans that it needs its dust bin
perception and action in the world, I remember seeing someone emptied, and asking for help when
have useful spatial representations comment at the time that Lee Sedol it gets stuck. This is not the required
and manipulations, provide enough was supported by a cup of coffee. level of self-sufficiency, but it is an
ability to react to the world on short And Alpha Go was supported by indication of the sort of thing I mean.
timescales, and to adequately handle 200 human engineers. They got it
ambiguity across all these domains. processors in the cloud on which to Rodney Brooks is the co-
run, managed software versions, founder of iRobot, which has
Currently all AI systems operate fed AlphaGo the moves (Lee Sedol sold more than 12 million home
within some sort of structure, but it is merely looked at the board with his robots worldwide, as well as
not the structure of something with own two eyes), played AlphaGo’s being founder and CTO of
ongoing existence. They operate as desired moves on the board, rebooted Rethink Robotics, whose mission
transactional programs that people everything when necessary, and is to apply advanced robotic
run when they want something. generally enabled AlphaGo to play at intelligence to manufacturing
all. That is not a Super Intelligence; it and physical labour. Rodney
Consider AlphaGo, the program that is a super basket case. is the Panasonic Professor of
beat 18 time world Go champion, Robotics (emeritus) at MIT.
Lee Sedol, in March of 2016. The So the very first thing we need is
program had no idea that it was programs, whether they are embodied
playing a game, that people exist, or or not, that can take care of their
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