Former Pixar and Stanford University roboticist Igor Mordatch at the OpenAI lab has found a way to encourage robots in a virtual 2D world to develop their own language. The researchers have developed an algorithm that can teach machines how to speak English by showing them videos of people speaking English. The bots are also given the ability to name things and give each other directions in order to complete various tasks. It's a different approach to language learning to the current fashion of statistically analysing vast amounts of data.
Former Pixar and Stanford University roboticist Igor Mordatch at the OpenAI lab has found a way to encourage robots in a virtual 2D world to develop their own language. The bots navigate their world through trial and error, using reinforcement learning techniques as they go, reports an Open AI research paper. The bots are also given the ability to name things and give each other directions in order to complete various tasks. It's a different approach to language learning to the current fashion of statistically analysing vast amounts of data.