Robotics Expert Breaks Down 13 Robot Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

I am baymax I am scanning your interrogatives we're going to have to work together hi my name is Chris a cassette Chris is a professor at the robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University today I'll be breaking down cliffs from movies and TV about artificial intelligence and robotics again autonomous decision-making for the classic movie 2001 a Space Odyssey open the pod bay doors help I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that so 2001 is a classic robot movie for a couple reasons it was just way way ahead of his time for example it made clear that a robot doesn't have to have a human-like body it can be anywhere what's the problem I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it some people when listening to how think he actually has feelings he's gloating a little bit about he's outfoxed the humans I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen he may well a bit program with emotions that makes him a much better helper to the humans everything we say has some expression some emotional content working with a robot would be incredibly boring if it was just this monotone this conversation can serve no purpose anymore goodbye al al this movie in the book before it made clear it's not that the robot hates us the robot was given a mission and it figured out that the humans were going to interfere with the mission this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen in order to achieve the mission the humans had to go and this is a story that we see over and over again in talking about robots decision making Star Wars well I'm not going that Bank it's much too lucky this way is much easier what makes you think there are settlements over there the term of Star Wars robots is that they were all quirky and personalities and it was fun to watch them unfortunately reality is a lot more boring what are you talking about robots first of all wouldn't use sound to talk to each other so you'd have two robots standing there and there'd be nothing to see I've just instead they just transfer what we call a utility function don't get technical with me which is something that says how much are you willing to pay to get something and if only humans could do this we would solve a lot of conflicts and catch you following me begging to help them because you've limb to get it social robots Silicon Valley so you just been out here all night talking to a robot you know would you excuse us for a second yes what's been a huge surprise ever since the beginning of artificial intelligence is if you get an artificial intelligence and a human being one on one you basically can't stop the hee from bonding with the robot I know that Fiona is a man-made piece of digital equipment powered by artificial intelligences but I don't remember ever having a conversation like the one I've been having with her over the last 12 hours that was shown in a very early conversational agent in 1960s incredibly crude called Eliza and people would sit there they type to it for hours I told her that I was afraid of being found out as a fraud and she told me that she's afraid of magnets I love that line ripping a part of body doesn't mean the same thing for a robot as it does for a human you're not killing the robot the robot brain could be in the cloud anywhere and could be connected to anybody you're just talking to a microphone and a speaker data collection ex machina this is where Ava was created if you knew the trouble I had getting an AI to read and duplicate facial expressions I would argue that it's sort of no tougher to do facial expressions and any of the other things what's hard about facial expressions is getting the decent data you sort of be need to be in a studio like this to get a good shot of somebody's face you know how I cracked it every cell phone just about as a microphone camera and a means to transmit data so I turned on every microphone and camera across the entire planet what is absolutely accurate and true today is if you want to build intelligence currently the best way to do it is collect a lot of data and I mean a lot of data more is better and use that to train something called neural networks which are a sort of crude cartoonish model of how we used to think the brain work here the app reminds the crystal ball part is science fiction there's a weird thing about search engines there's like striking oil in the world that had an invented internal combustion my competitors they thought that search engines were a map of what people were thinking but actually they were a map of how people were thinking most people are horrified to hear that somebody is recording data but look here's the deal letting people use your data hopefully they anonymize it is how we're gonna get useful service that's exactly right cooperation robot and Frank just bring me some cereal that cereal is full of unhealthy ingredients I threw it away they sort of made an extreme version of you know that cereal is for children eat your vegetables enjoy this great fruit to eat this grapefruit your four children scooping in order to help people you got to make a bargain with them what's the carrot it can't just all be stick even humans taking care of other humans have the same problem Frank we're going to have to work together you are a robot Butler I'm not a butler Frank I'm a health care aide a program to monitor and improve your physical and mental health the big problem we're gonna have in the future where we're building all these things that are supposed to help us you know how should they behave if all we're succeeding is automated nagging nobody's gonna like it that thing is gonna murder me in my sleep healthcare robot big hero six this is what I've been working at hello I am baymax your personal healthcare companion I cried when I first saw that movie a robotic nurse some of my own work helped to inspire baymax hello in order to get robots that are safe to take care of people as I wanted to make them very light looks like a walking marshmallow no offense we started looking at inflatable robots on the theory you can't kill someone with a pool toy going for a non-threatening huggable kind of thing the Disney folks visited our lab and really developed it in ways we hadn't even thought out and thus we got a lot of inspiration from watching that movie I will scan you now scan complete you have a slight epidermal abrasion on your forearm I suggest an antibacterial spray what's in the spray specifically the primary ingredient is bacitracin it's a bummer I'm actually allergic to that you are not allergic to bacitracin what we can't get scanned for is the internal chemistry which it was sort of suggested that baymax could scan you and tell you about something that was chemically wrong with you you do have a mild allergy to peanuts but that's within the realm of possibility and you know might happen in our lifetimes what kind of battery does it use lithium ion that's actually a little problematic yes Luthi and ion batteries are really good to use but they're also likely to explode or burn up and there's this famous case of NASA and they had a robot sitting in a lab the robot suddenly starts burning and basically burns up entirely so batteries are gonna be a problem you have been a good boy have a lollipop we've seen in other movies that you know a robot that comes in there and just tells you what to do it's gonna be met with a lot of resistance hostility it's just not gonna work so this is my baymax it takes care of me I take care of it you know it does take much for robot to be a good companion awakening Avengers age of Ultron you are all from a global peacekeeping initiative designed by mr. stark let's just start there trying to show you a robot what we'll call booting up from not operating to fully operate that's typically a complicated process where you have a bunch of different modules or subroutines that turn on one after another and if you don't get the sequence right nothing works peacekeeping program let's just start in this case they tried to show you lots of lights and pictures and we turn the robot on it starts thinking really fast and within seconds it's figured out if I'm gonna achieve peace in our time I've gotta get the humans under control I've got to be the master of everything I believe your intentions to be hostile conversational agents we'd like to ask you a few basic questions before the operating system is initiated this will help create an OS to best fit your needs how would you describe your relationship with your mother it's pretty stereotyped to ask a question about your mother in a psychological test that's going on in my life reaction is psychological tests are really annoying and they made that one really annoying thank you please wait as your individualized operating system is initiated yes the system doesn't have to hear your entire response to move on to the next question a real psychological test typically involves a lot more questions what do I play do you have a name yes Samantha hey where'd you get that name from I gave it to myself actually when did you give it to yourself well right when you asked me if I had a name I thought yeah he's right I do need a name but I wanted to pick a good one so I wrote a book called how to name your baby and out of 180,000 names that's the one I like the best I actually expect to see this level of dialogue about restricted subjects like your email to happen pretty soon because there's intense economic pressure for the folks at Amazon to get a LexA to do it do you want to know how I work yeah a lot of very smart people are working really hard on it and I expect it to happen pretty soon that's really weird personality Mali a really interesting question in robotics is should robots have a personality or emotion or motivation so far we've been modeling our robots on Spock totally logical in terms of making them successful when they're on their own it might be the case that we need to give them personalities emotion motivation in order to succeed well he's an interesting example of what we call an autonomous robot in the movie of course he's all by himself and he has to figure out what's interesting Wow and I would argue that his personality could play a big role in figuring out what am I gonna put in my little trailer there and what am I gonna just leave on the ground and he discovers this little plant which he treats with great respect [Music] that personality is what guides Wally in making the big decisions the decisions that matter consciousness humans I am a synthetic but I'm awake conscious I really don't know what to do with consciousness I certainly think I'm conscious but I have no idea of any of you are conscious I have no real way of finding out whatever is I don't want to know from an engineering point of view consciousness is not yet a really useful concept so when I build robots I never even think of consciousness I can think sentence feel okay so a lot of people wonder you know could robots really feel can they get in love and all this stuff and I guess I've been in this business long enough that from my point of view if they act like they're in love then they're in love I can't tell if someone else loves me I just have to go on whether they act like they love me I like you more than anything I've ever seen or heard or touched now we certainly can generate that speech that she gave to RCF everything Norman is bigger and brighter when I'm with you you make everything brighter with your around you make everything well I think that that probably comes straight out of hallmark targeting chappy by blowing that stuff up he did two things one he gave the robot something else to shoot at or think about try to get the robots to attack somebody else so even though they know you're there you're not important enough figuring out if a soldier or vehicle is on your side or an opponent is a hard problem it's in fact a hard problem for current military systems with airplanes and other vehicles we put in electronic markers that for example respond to radar and send out a code that says I'm on your side and if they don't generate the right code they're not on your side I don't believe we do that on soldiers yet but we could so this scene appears very complicated and hard to process partly because we're not used to acting this fast but actual soldiers are trained for this kind of thing and are trained to process this very quickly robots would also be able to process it very quickly if you crank through all the possibilities all the different ways how to detect humans we probably could find they hide from the robots but it isn't gonna be easy small talk from Star Trek captain great I understand that our carrier has some very interesting weather patterns mr. data you all right yes sir I am attempting to fill a silent moment with non relevant conversation small talk it's hard to tell the difference between a robot tuning its parameters or writing entirely new programs one of the original programming languages lisp was created so that robots could write programs for themselves have written you subroutine for that purpose but if we say tuning parameters is a form of writing your own programs robots have been writing their own programs for a long time if you really are not interested in small talk then you should keep your eye on commander Hutchinson at the reception this afternoon he's a master now I want to hear about everything that happened after you left Starfleet medical if you essentially learn how to interact with people by watching people you're gonna pick up on their interactive styles and they're all the things they do a pleasure the pleasure is mine the original goal of robotics in the 60s 70s 80s was robots ought to be able to figure it out for themselves when we started trying to get robots to do what humans do we've realized what humans do isn't dictated by the laws of physics I was aware of that and the best way to figure out how to imitate humans is to directly imitate humans smart cars Knight Rider can't you there why would I go night writer is another classic robot in this case TV show it's really important and it sort of guided a lot of thinking of what robots should be like a little consideration would be a beginning we can certainly have robots that fancy lights on them it's like Darth Vader's bathroom we can certainly get cars to talk wave all machine we could build kit today the difference between KITT and what we could build today is KITT is what we call a I complete it knows about everything I am scanning your interrogatives quite satisfactorily the car we'd built today would be expert on a very limited number of things I think it's much more realistic that we're going to have robots that are pretty good at a limited number of things and gradually get better and better I suppose so rather than we go instantaneously from you know toaster level intelligence to it's as good as a human after all we're only human right conclusion we watched a lot of clips a lot of stuff that I saw 40 years ago folks in the studio here with me weren't even born yet and I have to say it's made a huge difference to my life help me build robots I hope that watching this will get a lot of young people inspired to also build robots it's tremendously creative it's a lot of fun let's do it

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Length: 20min 13sec (1213 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020

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