Ga. Tech Scientists, Don Quixote Teach Robots Human Values

Georgia Tech researcher Mark Riedl has developed a method for artificial intelligence systems to learn human values from processing stories.

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For a robot waiting in line to pay for its owner’s medication, the fastest and most efficient method of getting the medication might be to steal the pills and leave the store without paying.

But as humans, Mark Riedl says, we’ve decided that’s not the right way. Riedl is an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and director of the Entertainment Intelligence Lab.