Wednesday 9 November 2016

Firm learning how to teach human skills to robots

By GERRIT DE VYNCK, BLOOMBERG

A customer orders a robot online and boots it up at home. At first the bot doesn’t do much of anything; it simply follows its new owner around and observes his daily routine: walking the dog, making lasagna, washing the dishes. But before long the bot has learned to be a surrogate, shouldering routine tasks so its owner can focus on more interesting ones. That’s the world envisioned by Suzanne Gildert and Geordie Rose. They run Kindred, a secretive artificial intelligence company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and funded in part by Google’s venture capital arm.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/oct/31/firm-learning-how-to-teach-human-skills/?f=business

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from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=20126

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