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Oops — An AI Said Why it was Wrong
Large language models (LLMs) are wonderful tools, but they sometimes make important mistakes. This informal note shows a stream of incorrect responses from Perplexity (a generally great resource) when we asked it about a rental property. Despite a series of … Continue reading
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Robot
A widespread public concern is that AIs are not trustworthy because they lack human values. Current practices for governing AI behavior aim to contain and guide AI behavior using software guardrails. In contrast, humans have nuanced, context dependent, and deep … Continue reading
Roots and Requirements for Collaborative AIs
The vision of AIs as human-like collaborators is a staple of mythology and science fiction, where artificial agents with special talents assist human partners and teams. In this vision, sophisticated AIs understand nuances of collaboration and human communication. The AI … Continue reading
What AIs are not Learning (and Why)
Today’s robots do not learn the general skills needed for such services as providing home care, being nursing assistants, or doing household chores. Addressing such aspirational goals requires improving how AIs and robots are created. Today’s mainstream AIs are not … Continue reading
Bootstrapping Developmental AIs
Developmental AI creates embodied AIs that develop human-like abilities. In a bootstrapping approach to developmental AI, the AIs start with innate competences and learn more by interacting with the world including people. Developmental AIs have been demonstrated, but their abilities … Continue reading