Today, what is not taught to do artificial intelligence: draw pictures, compose music and literary works, make translations from various languages and much more.
But American scientists even decided to teach artificial intelligence to predict the future. To begin with, of course, just guess what will happen in the next few seconds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are convinced that robots with similar skills can be very useful for humanity. Imagine, for example, a street surveillance camera that, upon seeing a dubious person, can determine that the suspicious person will get a knife or a pistol in a minute. It will be even more important to predict, and therefore prevent, road accidents, air and sea disasters, and much more.
When you and I see a person with a plate of food in front of him, we reasonably assume that this individual will now begin to eat. For the human brain, such conclusions are a real trifle, but for artificial intelligence it is still an impossible technological task. The Americans thought: why do we know that a person with a plate in front of his nose will now eat? Because we have seen it many times in our lives.
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However, an untrained robot has no idea why a person needs a plate, he first needs to explain this. Experts are developing a sophisticated deep learning algorithm that will involve artificial intelligence "watching" numerous videos. The robot will be "fed" tens of millions of videos depicting everything in the world: human behavior, animal habits, various natural phenomena and so on. For example, if you show a car a video in which a leopard is chasing a gazelle, the robot will be able to predict that if a gazelle is in the leopard's field of vision, the predator will certainly chase the artiodactyl. And when the artificial intelligence "sees" how the leopard kills its prey, it will understand how such a chase usually ends. And so on …
Karl Vondrik, one of the authors of the project, says: “Any modern robot must have basic skills in predicting the future. For example, if you are going to sit down, the robot should not pull the chair out from under you. Even if the machine suddenly needs this particular chair, it will have to find some other way out, understanding how to do the right thing in order not to disturb anything in the near future.
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It's no secret that today artificial intelligence is affecting our lives more and more. Therefore, it becomes necessary to create robots capable of predicting the near future, at least at the level of how a person does it. And then the robot must surpass our ability to predict the near future based on the analysis of the data obtained. After all, he will not be disturbed in this, as a person, by eternal worries, fears, worries, vanity, scattered attention, annoying thoughts and much more, because of which we constantly make mistakes in finding ourselves in difficult situations."