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

I don't want to be human what hi there I'm Chris Atkinson Chris is a professor at the robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University today I'll be breaking down clips from movie and TV about artificial intelligence and robotics out of control robots iRobot detective what are you doing he said they've all been programmed with the Three Laws Isaac Asimov was one of the earliest science fiction writers who focused on robots and he came up with this scheme of the Three Laws yeah I know the Three Laws perfect circle of protection robots don't hurt humans but doesn't the second law state that a robot has to obey any order given by a human being except if it causes a violation of the first law right but the third law states that a robot can defend itself unless it causes a violation of the second law and the first law we have 1,000 robots that will not try to protect themselves if it violates a direct order from a human I'm betting one who will you saw a robot that somehow it's three laws were disabled and that left it with an existential crisis what and which is sort of similar to what am I supposed to do next if I you know don't have any guiding purpose and if it was a case that robots ran on what we call expert systems or sets of laws that might actually be a reasonable way to program robots you know what they say laws are made to be broken but nowadays we're actually programming robots in a very different way by giving them lots of training examples and having them essentially learn parameters in formulas so that they do the right thing so we have this mich match between logical rules and numbers in a formula so in robot movie after robot movie they're obsessed with the robots actively turning against the humans and started killing human so that I get that the goddamn robots down far more likely if the robot will screw up it'll make a mistake and that mistake will have bad consequences brother it's a robot it doesn't need a motive it just has to be broken a deactivating an Android Blade Runner really shoot the crazy robots just coming to attack me yeah shooting a robot is a potentially a pretty good way to stop a robot now there might be parts of its chassis that you shoot a bullet through it doesn't do anything Justin cut any wires doesn't open up a hydraulic fluid hose so you might have to shoot it a bunch of times there are other ways to disable a robot that might not damage it in the same way for example there's something called an electromagnetic pulse which will fry all at circuits but leave the mechanics intact Blade Runner is a fantastic movie has this incredible vision of the future which by the way we've already caught up with learning from imitation Terminator hey buddy got a dead patty near a boy you pour we're gonna program robots to have conversations in dialogue and in many many situations you can anticipate what happens next but sooner or later the robots gonna face a situation let's do it doesn't know what to say you know the robots gonna have to wing it in this clip you told was the way to go you pour a scream came up and English words were there and it sort of moved a cursor down and picked one that's only there for the audience of the movie the robots aren't going to do that you know it's all what trikes little transistors going blip blip blip and it's gonna make the decision decided our stage a microsecond programming the new West world no wait a second she'll do it again or fear that's not standard occasionally in Westworld you see a black box looks like a fancy keyboard in which they're sort of programming various sub behaviors that's column or primitives it's been this controversy of do you build up behaviors from twitch here to twitch there or do you have a few fundamental behaviors and then you combine a afford must-have it turns out you can learn a lot faster if you combine these fundamental behaviors rather than adding up a lot of twitches he calls them memories the old gestures were just generic movements these are tied to specific memories this is a spoiler things will go bad because they couldn't completely wipe the memory of a robot memories are purged at the end of every narrative later still in there waiting to be able to written you found a way to access them it turns out in complex machine so you got lots of different kinds of memory in lots of different kinds of places for example the CPU is going to have a little bit of memory in it it'll also have something called cache memory we have what's called a memory hierarchy there's fast memory and then they're slower memory subconscious index if you totally fried the machine all you'd end up with is a broken robot so you can't totally wipe the machine it's the tiny things that make them seem real robotics lab making mr. right you look at that scene you say why is chemistry happening in a robotics lab the future of robotics is where we make materials using chemistry to make soft materials so that's actually looks very similar to what goes on in some of my colleagues labs you know at Carnegie Mellon I thought showing you these tapes might have to make you more familiar with the Droid we video record all our experiments and in fact often you know when we press an on button to say do something that simultaneously turns the cameras on just so far the rest must be learned watching video feedback is very helpful to debug behavior we had some difficulty with this gross motor functions before we modified his cerebral muscular coordination okay so you just saw some mumbo-jumbo he's mixing things we'd say about a human who had a disease we modified a cerebral muscular coordination and a robot that doesn't know how to walk gross motor functions my robots actually fell down much more than their robot did robot malfunction Austin Powers [Music] can you design an input to a robot that will cause it to malfunction or crash [Music] only Austin Powers can do that yeah baby multi-agent robotics Minority Report one area of research in robotics is what we call multi agent robotics which is to get a bunch of robots to work together [Music] we model that on humans working together like a sports team or when we're searching for somebody lost in the woods small robots in this clip would seem very smart and complicated the the dream in robotics is can we make a lot of stupid cheap robots that by working together get the job done what we saw in this clip is they were usually some kind of imaging radar to figure out where people are likely to be Tom Cruise hidden in the bathtub that water shields him from radar as you saw but it also tries to hide his thermal signature so he's hotter than everything else around him and any kind of infrared imaging would have found him that's why he dumped ice in the water as well but you know if the robots have any kind of camera they could have just looked down and there's Tom Cruise so I think we're gonna have to do a little better than that if we're gonna hide from the robots thermal vision Westborough the west-world clip is using what we call thermal imaging far infrared imaging where you essentially scan see an image of the temperature of things that are out there when the human got next to something that was much hotter the movie tried to suggest that that would hide the human that's actually probably not the case because the human isn't any less hot and as long as the image doesn't do what we call bloom and the whole thing saturate that robot should have been able to see the human just as well human limitations Battlestar Galactica the five of us designed you to be as human as possible I don't want to be human I want to see gamma rays I want to hear x-rays and I want to I want to smell dark matter it's highly unlikely robots are gonna complain about their bodies what they might complain about is our crappy computational hardware my can't even express these things properly a lot of it gets back to how do we build computers and right now for largely historical reasons we separate out the thinking part we'll call that the processor and the memory part and in order to really think about things we've got to move everything in the memory part into the processor so it can process it and it turns out that's really slow and if you want to save stuff you got to move it back and that's really slow I'm so broken then whose fault is that it's my makers fault google has something called a TPU which they're optimizing to run something called neural networks and they're building bucket loads of these things and they're very very different from standard computers but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws I do believe that the way we build computers now is going to change completely in many ways I'm a machine and I could know much more if the robots want to help us do a better job at that more power to a robotics lab Rising Sun why do we have guys in gold suits I don't know why you'd wear gold suits you certainly in a clean room where some kind of suit so your dandruff doesn't ruin the chips they look ridiculous captain Connie the people making the movie said we got to get us some cool-looking robots but I've been told by reliable sources but only you have the next generation of technology to do this kind of work so they actually reached out to what was then the leg lab which was at that time at MIT you're looking at early robots that eventually became Boston Dynamics I'm getting out to a lot more Dodger games lately the robot on the boom I believe was a yuna room which it was a kangaroo like robot so the 3d biped is quite famous it was you know one of the first robots that didn't have a sort of protective system to keep it from falling down but you're reliable sources are wrong and it did a lot of amazing things walk run it even did flips in contrast the robot you saw earlier inside that that building was on a boom and it runs in a circle what did I think of next design Bicentennial man have you given any thought whatsoever as to what age you'd like to be officially I am 62 years old let's take off 25 years what do you say 15 20 they use soft materials to make the face of the robot soft materials typically do what we call creep over long periods of time the animatronic figures such as the Disney presidents and whatnot all begin to sag just keeping you and you toes I don't have any toes a big problem with robot skin is after a while it gets worn it gets cuts it sags it's actually a big problem because you if you load it up with sensors and wires it's a million dollar piece of skin and fixing it is a big problem but otherwise it's pretty much how you make a robot face you have some mechanism and you cover it with some soft gooey stuff origami transformers [Music] there are a lot of robots out there who want to build origami robots robots that can reconfigure themselves by folding that turns out to be a great way to build robots Oh No another area of Robotics is more like traditional origami where you have a flat sheet and you have a folding pattern and that makes a three-dimensional robot why is it a good idea to start things from a flat sheet you can use any printing technology you want to lay down things like surfaces or materials but most of these folding robots are on a smaller scale for structural reasons so they're on the meter or centimeter scale rather than the hundred or tens of meter scale big guys big guys a big done in robotic insects black mirror call any collapse disorder we we still don't know what's behind it bees themselves were virtually extinct so what all ad eyes do is effectively standing for them this clip is very close to the truth in that people are trying to build robot insects right now they can build things they're almost as small as a bee and they can fly we simply set the behavior and leave them to it they need rudimentary pattern recognition in order to locate compatible flora navigate they even construct these hives themselves they they reproduce yeah each hive is a replication pole I was entertained by the hives which had these sort of squarish honey combs it's like a 3d printer basically they also had a little bit of confusion about reproduction they create duplicates of themselves create more hives and spread out exponentially they seem to suggest that there's this big 3d printer that's churning them out which I wouldn't really call reproduction I'd call that production machine it's necessary no.10 is it would have an environmental catastrophe these were dying out are we gonna have to make robots and big factories in the future or are we gonna have find a similar way to just grow new robots it's a big issue for robots radiation Chernobyl all right let's take this easy forward one meter reverse one last one did you lose the signal it's not a signal it's the vehicle instead a problem with high-energy radiation is you have chips circuits which rely on every part working the higher energy particle comes in and damages it knocks out a trace or two and the whole thing stops working and they should have known that that was gonna happen I'm a little surprised at that I wrote what was never going to work an implication of this is why does military electronics cost so much they anticipate high levels of radiation if you're fighting in the midst of a nuclear war an amount of gamma radiation penetrates everything the particles literally shred the circuits in microchips apart all their equipment needs to be read hard as well it means the circuit is much more likely to keep working in the presence of high-energy radiation and that makes it fantastically expensive I'm surprised at how good the old stuff was at predicting what's gonna happen a lot of robots this ain't Hollywood I love Hollywood you know give me more robot movies it's very inspirational let's go out there and watch more movies

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Length: 18min 40sec (1120 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 18 2020