Self-Motivated AI, Plus A Kill-Switch for Rogue Bots—TWIML 2016/06/10

This week’s podcast looks at new research on intrinsic motivation for AI systems, a kill-switch for intelligent agents, “knu” chips for machine learning, a screenplay made by a neural net, and more.

Here are the notes for this week’s show:

Intrinsically Motivated AI

• Playing Montezuma’s Revenge with Intrinsic Motivation
• Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation
• Intrinsically Motivated Machines
• Implementation of DEvelopmentAl Learning

Safely Interruptible Agents

• What if robots decide they want to take control?
• New paper: “Safely interruptible agents”
• Safely Interruptible Agents

Open Source Project Updates

• TensorFlow 0.9
• Apache Spark 2.0 Preview: Machine Learning Model Persistence

A “Knu” Chip for Machine Learning

• Former NASA Exec Brings Stealth Machine Learning Chip to Light

CrowdFlower’s AI Push

• Solving Million (not Billion) Dollar Business Problems with AI

Vi: An AI Personal Trainer

• Meet Vi

Recurrent Neural Net Writes Sci-Fi Movie

• Movie Written by Algorithm Turns out to be Hilarious and Intense
• Adventures in Narrated Reality, Part II
• Understanding LSTMs
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

Teaching Robots to Feel

• Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning

ML for Hackers: Build a Chatbot

• ML for Hackers: Build a Chatbot
• Siraj Raval on Twitter

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