O'reilly Radar Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Imbuing robots with magic, eschewing deception in AI, and problematic assumptions of human-taught reinforcement learning.In this episode, I sit down with Brad Knox, founder and CEO of Emoters, a startup building a product called bots_alive—animal-like robots that have a strong illusion of life. We chat about the approach the company is taking, why robots or agents that pass themselves off as human without any transparency should be illegal, and some challenges and applications of reinforcement learning and interactive machine learning.Here are some links to things we talked about and some highlights from our conversation: Links: bots_alive Bot Party Knox's article: Framing reinforcement learning from human reward: Reward positivity, temporal discounting, episodicity, and performance Knox's article: Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning bots_alive's NSF award: Design, deployment, and algorithmic optimization