26 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg on ABC News on Robots as the Future of AI
Ryan Nakashima's article "Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI" for ABC News features Ken Goldberg! The article muses on the reason for Facebook's new hires of top academics in the field of artifical intelligence.
From the article:
There are other more abstract applications of learnings from robotics, says Berkeley AI professor Ken Goldberg. Just like teaching a robot to escape from a computerized maze, other robots change their behavior depending on whether actions they took got them closer to a goal. Such systems could even be adapted to serve ads, he said — which just happens to be the mainstay of Facebook's business.
"It's not a static decision, it's a dynamic one," Goldberg said.
Read the article here.
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