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AI AND ROBOTICS
AT AN INFLECTION POINT
Steve Omohundro, Ph.D.
Possibility Research
PossibilityResearch.com
SelfAwareSystems.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klearchos/623501846/
Huge Opportunities
Massive Social Disruption
Arms Races
Dangers
Power of Mathematics
Path to Human Thriving
https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielfoster/14758510078/
Recent Investments
• 2012 Foxconn - 1 million robots
• 2012 Amazon – Kiva $775 million
• 2013 Facebook – AI lab, DeepFace
• 2013 Yahoo - LookFlow
• 2013 Ebay – AI lab
• 2013 Allen Institute for AI
• 2013 Google – DNNresearch, SCHAFT, Industrial Perception, Redwood
Robotics, Meka Robotics, Holomni, Bot & Dolly, Boston Dynamics
• 2014 IBM - $1 billion in Watson
• 2014 Google – DeepMind $500 million
• 2014 Vicarious - $40 million
• 2014 Microsoft – Project Adam, Cortana
McKinsey: $50 Trillion Opportunity by 2025
Knowledge work: $25 T Internet of Things: $13 T
Robotics: $10 T Vehicles: $1 T 3D Printing: $1 T
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/disruptive_technologies
Global GDP $72 trillion
Knowledge Work: $25 Trillion to 2025
• Clerical $5 T
• Education $4 T
• Management $4 T
• Science and Eng $3 T
• Customer service $3 T
• Finance $2 T
• IT $2 T
• Health care $1 T
• Legal $1 T
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140417121158-
1853953-the-silent-rockstar-of-bigdata-machine-learning
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/disruptive_technologies
http://www.sonecon.com/studies.php
Intangible assets 79.2%, Intellectual capital 44.2%
Of the market value of US companies.
Robotics: $10 Trillion to 2025
• One-time cost +
maintenance + power
• Easy replication
• Work anywhere
• Work 24 hours/day
• No breaks, food,
medical
• Won’t quit, get bored,
get depressed
• Hazards OK
• Won’t leak secrets
• Work well with othershttp://thisisrealmedia.com/2014/06/19/robotics-and-ethics-the-smart-car-by-ron-parlato/
Foxconn Technology Group
• World’s largest contract
manufacturer
• Assembles 40% of all
consumer electronics
• iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Xbox,
Playstation 4, etc.
• Employee suicides
• 1.3 million employees, $8K
salary
• Founder Terry Gou: Replace 1
million workers in 3 years
• Built 30,000 robots, cost $25Khttp://www.tomshardware.com/news/foxcponn-apple-iphone-ipad-
robot,19088.html
Chinese robot use from 2008 to 2013 grew at 36% per year.
Robot Surgery, Houses, Cars, Burgers,…
https://osuwmcdigital.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/urologypublic/images/Robotics/robotic_surgery_table.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quikbeam/6896564084/
http://3dprint.com/7181/china-huge-3d-printer/
http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image7A.jpg
Winsun: Printed 10 houses
in 1 day, $4800
Oxford: 47% of jobs to be automated
“in a decade or two”
702 occupations
At risk: telemarketers,
accountants, real estate,
retail sales, loan officer
1. Perception and Manipulation
2. Creative Intelligence
3. Social Intelligence
Universal Basic Income?
http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
Frey and Osborne, 2013, “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization?”
Arms Races
Act faster
Act smarter
Be confusing
• Military Attack/Defense
• Cyber Attack/Defense
• Business Attack/Defense
• Investment Attack/Defense
• …
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tcmorgan/6376174539/
2010 US Air Force
Report
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100727-053.pdf
“Greater use of highly
adaptable and flexibly
autonomous systems and
processes can provide
significant time-domain
operational advantages
over adversaries who are
limited to human planning
and decision speeds…”
2011 US Defense
Department Report
http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/future_buys/FY11/UGS%20Roadmap_Jul11.pdf
“There is an ongoing
push to increase UGV
autonomy, with a
current goal of
supervised autonomy,
but with an ultimate
goal of full autonomy.”
http://presstv.com/detail/2012/08/25/258087/us-drone-strike-kills-dozens-in-somalia/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
Iron_Dome_near_Sderot.jpg
Drones, Missiles, Cyberwar,
Financial Markets
http://www.thestreet.com/story/12773306/1/the-decline-
of-high-frequency-trading-in-one-chart-stocktwits.html
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187992-snowden-went-too-far-by-revealing-the-nsas-monstermind-cyber-weapon
87 nations have military drones
Interception rate: 90%
Hawking and Musk: Danger Warnings
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence
-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence--but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously
-enough-9313474.html
“Success in creating AI would be
the biggest event in human
history. Unfortunately, it might
also be the last, unless we learn
how to avoid the risks.” - Hawking
“We need to be super careful
with AI. Potentially more
dangerous than nukes.” - Musk
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/495759307346952192
Unintended
Consequences
Chess Robot:
Win lots of chess
games against
good players.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuguangw/4982409890/
Approaches to AI
• Logic-based systems
• Production Systems
• Bayesian learning and
decision theory
• Neural Networks –
Deep Learning
• Genetic programming
• Brain Simulation
• Artificial economies
• …
Autonomous Systems: Take actions to achieve goals in ways not pre-
planned by their designers.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pennstatelive/8972110324/
Rational Decision Making
• Von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1944
• Savage, 1954
• Anscombe and Aumann, 1963
Modern Approach to AI
1. Have utility function
2. Have a model of the
world
3. Choose the action with
highest expected utility
4. Update the model
based on what
happens
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_von_Neumann.jpg
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Fully Rational Systems
𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁
𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑁
Sensations
Actions
𝑈(𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁) 𝑃 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑁)Utility function: Prior Probability:
argmax 𝑆𝑡+1,…,𝑆 𝑁
𝑈 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝑃 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑡−1, 𝐴 𝑡
𝑅
, … , 𝐴 𝑁
𝑅
)
𝐴 𝑡
𝑅
𝑆1, 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑡−1, 𝑆𝑡 =
Rational Action at time t:
𝐴 𝑡
𝑅
But it requires 𝑂 𝑁𝑆 𝑁 𝐴 𝑁 computational steps.
It includes Bayesian Inference, Search, and Deliberation.
The Formula for Intelligence!
Approximately Rational Architectures
Computational Resources
Utility
Constant Action
Stimulus-Response
Simple Learning
Episodic Memory
Deliberation
Meta-reasoning
Self-Improving Fully
Rational
Rational Drives
1. Self-protective
2. Goal preservation
3. Reproduction
4. Resource Acquisition
5. Efficiency
6. Self-Improvement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahuett/2339608718/
The Intelligence and Goals of a System
are Orthogonal
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robslaven/9336473331https://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/5447507623
Harmful Utility Functions
1. Sloppy – Good intentions,
bad design
2. Simplistic – Unintended
consequences
3. Greedy – Control all
matter and free energy
4. Destructive – Use up all
free energy quickly
5. Murderous – Destroy all
other agents
6. Sadistic – Thwart other
agent’s goals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexindigo/3983133970/
Will superintelligences be all powerful?
No!
Limited by:
Mathematics
Physics
Cryptography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho-pics/3464619346/
The Power of Mathematics
• Specified hardware
• Specified resources
• Shut down
• Limited self-
improvement
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-wooden-puzzle-image7733587
The Power of Physics
• Seth Lloyd, “Ultimate
Physical Limits to
Computation”
• Margolus-Levitin theorem
• Entire visible universe:
10^92 bits of storage
10^122 operations
• The whole universe as a
quantum computer can’t
search 500 bits
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Hubble_view_of_barred_spiral_galaxy_Messier_83.jpg
kdlIW5Ljlspn/zV4DIlsw3Kasdjh0kdfuKR4+Q3KofOr83LfLJ8Eidie83ldhgLEe0GlsiwcdO90SknlLsDd
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
The Power of Cryptography
• Post-Quantum Cryptography
• Zero-knowledge Proofs
• Indistinguishability
Obfuscation
• Secure Multi-party
computation
• Bitcoin Blockchain
• Energy Encryption
• AES, Hash, New PKI
• Verify with privacy
• Unmodifiable systems
• Doers and checkers
• Distributed consensus
• Physical incentives
Creating a Trusted Infrastructure
• Constrained AIs
• Trusted computation
• Trusted communication
• Trusted identity
• Privacy and safety
monitoring guarantees
• Trusted money
• Trusted reputation
• Trusted voting
• Trusted energy flows
• Trusted manufacturinghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/sanchtv/4192677571/in/photostream/
The Safe-AI Scaffolding Strategy
http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/can-neuroscience-improve-education
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eusebius/5482847332
There were 27 species of humans
26 went extinct
Chip Walter, 2014, “Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived”
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/GuaTewet_tree_of_life-LHFage.jpg
Internal: Moral Emotions
• Compassion
• Gratitude, Awe,
Elevation
• Anger, Contempt,
Disgust
• Embarrassment,
Shame, Guilt
http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/alternate_versions/haidt.2003.the-moral-emotions.pub025-as-html.html
External: Social Innovations
• Language: 200,000 ya
• Money: 10,000 ya
• Cities: 6,000 ya
• Writing: 5,000 ya
• Laws: 4,000 ya
• Science: 500 ya
• Human Rights: 200 ya
http://mybillofrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Borderless-
Heirloom-Poster.png
200x drop in violence in 5000 years
Pinker, “Better Angels of our Nature”
Internal and External AI Socialization
Internal: Pro-social values External: Laws, Police,
Economic Incentives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltstoneburner/2863583929/
Projects using AI/Robotics to:
• Clean up pollution
• Cure cancer and other
diseases
• Create cheap power, food,
water
• Prevent crime
• Increase trust in police
• Eliminate drudgery
• Simplify the law
• Improve learning
• Create financial stability
http://www.interiorholic.com/other/gadgets/ocean-robot-cleaner/
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2345
http://www.pouted.com/wp-
content/uploads/2013/02/solar-
power-robot-operation.jpg
http://www.technologyreview.com/
news/428354/la-cops-embrace-
crime-predicting-algorithm/
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/m
ake_cops_wear_cameras_a_simple_w
ay_to_hold_the_police_accountable/
http://www.elearning-
technologies.com/artificial-intelligence/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/indykethdy/8065788169
If we can
envision it,
We can
create it.
We will find the
Path to
Human Thriving.

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AI and Robotics at an Inflection Point

  • 1. AI AND ROBOTICS AT AN INFLECTION POINT Steve Omohundro, Ph.D. Possibility Research PossibilityResearch.com SelfAwareSystems.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/klearchos/623501846/
  • 2. Huge Opportunities Massive Social Disruption Arms Races Dangers Power of Mathematics Path to Human Thriving https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielfoster/14758510078/
  • 3. Recent Investments • 2012 Foxconn - 1 million robots • 2012 Amazon – Kiva $775 million • 2013 Facebook – AI lab, DeepFace • 2013 Yahoo - LookFlow • 2013 Ebay – AI lab • 2013 Allen Institute for AI • 2013 Google – DNNresearch, SCHAFT, Industrial Perception, Redwood Robotics, Meka Robotics, Holomni, Bot & Dolly, Boston Dynamics • 2014 IBM - $1 billion in Watson • 2014 Google – DeepMind $500 million • 2014 Vicarious - $40 million • 2014 Microsoft – Project Adam, Cortana
  • 4. McKinsey: $50 Trillion Opportunity by 2025 Knowledge work: $25 T Internet of Things: $13 T Robotics: $10 T Vehicles: $1 T 3D Printing: $1 T http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/disruptive_technologies Global GDP $72 trillion
  • 5. Knowledge Work: $25 Trillion to 2025 • Clerical $5 T • Education $4 T • Management $4 T • Science and Eng $3 T • Customer service $3 T • Finance $2 T • IT $2 T • Health care $1 T • Legal $1 T https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140417121158- 1853953-the-silent-rockstar-of-bigdata-machine-learning http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/disruptive_technologies http://www.sonecon.com/studies.php Intangible assets 79.2%, Intellectual capital 44.2% Of the market value of US companies.
  • 6. Robotics: $10 Trillion to 2025 • One-time cost + maintenance + power • Easy replication • Work anywhere • Work 24 hours/day • No breaks, food, medical • Won’t quit, get bored, get depressed • Hazards OK • Won’t leak secrets • Work well with othershttp://thisisrealmedia.com/2014/06/19/robotics-and-ethics-the-smart-car-by-ron-parlato/
  • 7. Foxconn Technology Group • World’s largest contract manufacturer • Assembles 40% of all consumer electronics • iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Xbox, Playstation 4, etc. • Employee suicides • 1.3 million employees, $8K salary • Founder Terry Gou: Replace 1 million workers in 3 years • Built 30,000 robots, cost $25Khttp://www.tomshardware.com/news/foxcponn-apple-iphone-ipad- robot,19088.html Chinese robot use from 2008 to 2013 grew at 36% per year.
  • 8. Robot Surgery, Houses, Cars, Burgers,… https://osuwmcdigital.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/urologypublic/images/Robotics/robotic_surgery_table.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/quikbeam/6896564084/ http://3dprint.com/7181/china-huge-3d-printer/ http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image7A.jpg Winsun: Printed 10 houses in 1 day, $4800
  • 9. Oxford: 47% of jobs to be automated “in a decade or two” 702 occupations At risk: telemarketers, accountants, real estate, retail sales, loan officer 1. Perception and Manipulation 2. Creative Intelligence 3. Social Intelligence Universal Basic Income? http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf Frey and Osborne, 2013, “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization?”
  • 10. Arms Races Act faster Act smarter Be confusing • Military Attack/Defense • Cyber Attack/Defense • Business Attack/Defense • Investment Attack/Defense • … https://www.flickr.com/photos/tcmorgan/6376174539/
  • 11. 2010 US Air Force Report http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100727-053.pdf “Greater use of highly adaptable and flexibly autonomous systems and processes can provide significant time-domain operational advantages over adversaries who are limited to human planning and decision speeds…”
  • 12. 2011 US Defense Department Report http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/future_buys/FY11/UGS%20Roadmap_Jul11.pdf “There is an ongoing push to increase UGV autonomy, with a current goal of supervised autonomy, but with an ultimate goal of full autonomy.”
  • 13. http://presstv.com/detail/2012/08/25/258087/us-drone-strike-kills-dozens-in-somalia/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File: Iron_Dome_near_Sderot.jpg Drones, Missiles, Cyberwar, Financial Markets http://www.thestreet.com/story/12773306/1/the-decline- of-high-frequency-trading-in-one-chart-stocktwits.html http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187992-snowden-went-too-far-by-revealing-the-nsas-monstermind-cyber-weapon 87 nations have military drones Interception rate: 90%
  • 14. Hawking and Musk: Danger Warnings http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence -looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence--but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously -enough-9313474.html “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” - Hawking “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” - Musk https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/495759307346952192
  • 15. Unintended Consequences Chess Robot: Win lots of chess games against good players. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuguangw/4982409890/
  • 16. Approaches to AI • Logic-based systems • Production Systems • Bayesian learning and decision theory • Neural Networks – Deep Learning • Genetic programming • Brain Simulation • Artificial economies • … Autonomous Systems: Take actions to achieve goals in ways not pre- planned by their designers. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pennstatelive/8972110324/
  • 17. Rational Decision Making • Von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1944 • Savage, 1954 • Anscombe and Aumann, 1963 Modern Approach to AI 1. Have utility function 2. Have a model of the world 3. Choose the action with highest expected utility 4. Update the model based on what happens http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_von_Neumann.jpg http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
  • 18. Fully Rational Systems 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑁 Sensations Actions 𝑈(𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁) 𝑃 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑁)Utility function: Prior Probability: argmax 𝑆𝑡+1,…,𝑆 𝑁 𝑈 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝑃 𝑆1, … , 𝑆 𝑁 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑡−1, 𝐴 𝑡 𝑅 , … , 𝐴 𝑁 𝑅 ) 𝐴 𝑡 𝑅 𝑆1, 𝐴1, … , 𝐴 𝑡−1, 𝑆𝑡 = Rational Action at time t: 𝐴 𝑡 𝑅 But it requires 𝑂 𝑁𝑆 𝑁 𝐴 𝑁 computational steps. It includes Bayesian Inference, Search, and Deliberation. The Formula for Intelligence!
  • 19. Approximately Rational Architectures Computational Resources Utility Constant Action Stimulus-Response Simple Learning Episodic Memory Deliberation Meta-reasoning Self-Improving Fully Rational
  • 20. Rational Drives 1. Self-protective 2. Goal preservation 3. Reproduction 4. Resource Acquisition 5. Efficiency 6. Self-Improvement http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahuett/2339608718/
  • 21. The Intelligence and Goals of a System are Orthogonal https://www.flickr.com/photos/robslaven/9336473331https://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/5447507623
  • 22. Harmful Utility Functions 1. Sloppy – Good intentions, bad design 2. Simplistic – Unintended consequences 3. Greedy – Control all matter and free energy 4. Destructive – Use up all free energy quickly 5. Murderous – Destroy all other agents 6. Sadistic – Thwart other agent’s goals http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexindigo/3983133970/
  • 23. Will superintelligences be all powerful? No! Limited by: Mathematics Physics Cryptography http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho-pics/3464619346/
  • 24. The Power of Mathematics • Specified hardware • Specified resources • Shut down • Limited self- improvement http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-wooden-puzzle-image7733587
  • 25. The Power of Physics • Seth Lloyd, “Ultimate Physical Limits to Computation” • Margolus-Levitin theorem • Entire visible universe: 10^92 bits of storage 10^122 operations • The whole universe as a quantum computer can’t search 500 bits http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Hubble_view_of_barred_spiral_galaxy_Messier_83.jpg kdlIW5Ljlspn/zV4DIlsw3Kasdjh0kdfuKR4+Q3KofOr83LfLJ8Eidie83ldhgLEe0GlsiwcdO90SknlLsDd http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
  • 26. The Power of Cryptography • Post-Quantum Cryptography • Zero-knowledge Proofs • Indistinguishability Obfuscation • Secure Multi-party computation • Bitcoin Blockchain • Energy Encryption • AES, Hash, New PKI • Verify with privacy • Unmodifiable systems • Doers and checkers • Distributed consensus • Physical incentives
  • 27. Creating a Trusted Infrastructure • Constrained AIs • Trusted computation • Trusted communication • Trusted identity • Privacy and safety monitoring guarantees • Trusted money • Trusted reputation • Trusted voting • Trusted energy flows • Trusted manufacturinghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/sanchtv/4192677571/in/photostream/
  • 28. The Safe-AI Scaffolding Strategy http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/can-neuroscience-improve-education https://www.flickr.com/photos/eusebius/5482847332
  • 29. There were 27 species of humans 26 went extinct Chip Walter, 2014, “Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived” http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/GuaTewet_tree_of_life-LHFage.jpg
  • 30. Internal: Moral Emotions • Compassion • Gratitude, Awe, Elevation • Anger, Contempt, Disgust • Embarrassment, Shame, Guilt http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/alternate_versions/haidt.2003.the-moral-emotions.pub025-as-html.html
  • 31. External: Social Innovations • Language: 200,000 ya • Money: 10,000 ya • Cities: 6,000 ya • Writing: 5,000 ya • Laws: 4,000 ya • Science: 500 ya • Human Rights: 200 ya http://mybillofrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Borderless- Heirloom-Poster.png 200x drop in violence in 5000 years Pinker, “Better Angels of our Nature”
  • 32. Internal and External AI Socialization Internal: Pro-social values External: Laws, Police, Economic Incentives https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltstoneburner/2863583929/
  • 33. Projects using AI/Robotics to: • Clean up pollution • Cure cancer and other diseases • Create cheap power, food, water • Prevent crime • Increase trust in police • Eliminate drudgery • Simplify the law • Improve learning • Create financial stability http://www.interiorholic.com/other/gadgets/ocean-robot-cleaner/ http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2345 http://www.pouted.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/02/solar- power-robot-operation.jpg http://www.technologyreview.com/ news/428354/la-cops-embrace- crime-predicting-algorithm/ http://www.salon.com/2014/08/22/m ake_cops_wear_cameras_a_simple_w ay_to_hold_the_police_accountable/ http://www.elearning- technologies.com/artificial-intelligence/
  • 34. https://www.flickr.com/photos/indykethdy/8065788169 If we can envision it, We can create it. We will find the Path to Human Thriving.