Google's Deepmind AI teaching itself to walk

Jul 13, 2017 6:01 PM

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4nRCC9TwQ&t=11s

Google is pretty late to the party though. A lot of companies and even individuals have been doing this, if not better.

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that fucking arm pumping! lmao YES! I CAN DO IT! YES! YES! YES! YES!

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that program is just so fucking pumped about walking and I'm proud of it

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Kill it!! Kill it now!!

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I look even dumber running, so fuck you AI!

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spent the entire night looking at evolution and physics simulators while reevaluating my place in the world. was nice, thank you

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the humanoid one walks like a fucking titan

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This is not learning by itself it's just doing brute force for the majority of it and remembering how it works.

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Its using its arms to gyro stabilize, amazing!

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This is just a genetic algorithm. Its the simplest a.i. There is

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Google defines AI as something that can improve its own code. Neural networks just refine parameters.

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I love the fist pump. "FUCK YEAH! IM FUCKIN' WALKIN'!! FUCK! YES!!"

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"Maybe it knows something we don't." Hmm, there could be some truth to this. *flails wildly during entirety of an errand run.

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Nope.

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Looks like the music video of E-Pro by Beck

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These models run exactly like I do. I'm already in danger of being replaced by an indistinguishable robot clone.

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What if you are the clone and just don't know it?

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That does not compute. I am human.

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Where's that 4 mech ostriches gif learning to walk through trial and error when you need it?!

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Swanging?

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It's in a Siggraph video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw

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Awesome

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Thank you. This has made my day!

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Ha well played

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Oh thank god someone made the gif I was too lazy to make

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Attack on AI

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+1 & saved

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Just like Attack on Titan

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needs googly eyes

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Shit.

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Little known fact: there is a sense that tells you where your arms are positioned at. This AI definitely doesn't have that sense.

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Then again, that fist pump looks ridiculously familiar...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That "sense" is just the brain tracking where your limbs are in the physical world by running an internal simulation. Sound familiar?

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I think it's more that the AI doesn't know about stuff like blood flow or muscle exhaustion.

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To the people commenting that video games already do this: This is different. In a game the character will change animation based on (1

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2) the terrain, true, but that animation and how the character acts is still programmed by a person. In this the AI wrote it's own (2

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3) animation and programming.

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Wrote a program, yes. Modified it's own program, no.

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It did not change its programming. Deepmind is a neural network, and does not have the ability to modify its own code.

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This is how I'm walking from now on.

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You and my autistic clients

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Simpsons did it first

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*Monty Python

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They can teach funny walks, but notice the lack of arm movement. His steps are not nearly as efficient as Homers'

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It's more what it doesn't know. Like, how shin bones work, and what swinging the arms around do to the vats of liquid we call sensors.

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So... how do shin bones work?

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Like a big chicken wing for your shin

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It's connected to the thigh bone.

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If you used your shin bone the way the hotdog with legs is, you'd tear all the skin off, or at least have bloody scrapes.

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Good thing robots don't have skin, or the need to adhere to human limitations.

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it does however need to have self preservation, smashing even a steel shin into a wall a couple thousand times will eventually damage it.

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