AI systems learn to behave like humans
But at times, they find their way to unexpected, unwanted and even harmful behaviour
San Francisco
AT OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) lab founded by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes, this goes wrong.
Sitting inside OpenAI's San Francisco offices on a recent afternoon, researcher Dario Amodei showed off an autonomous system that taught itself to play Coast Runners, an old boat-racing video game. The winner is the boat with the most points that also crosses the finish line.
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