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June 24, 2016

Robots learn a lot about us by watching TV

  • Computers that binge watch a lot of random YouTube videos learn to predict how people will react better than those that don't.
    • By WILLIAM J. KOLE
    Associated Press

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Remember the Jetsons' robot maid, Rosie? Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers think her future real-life incarnations can learn a thing or two from Steve Carell and other sitcom stars.

    MIT says a computer that binge-watched YouTube videos and TV shows such as “The Office,” “Big Bang Theory” and “Desperate Housewives” learned how to predict whether the actors were about to hug, kiss, shake hands or slap high fives — advances that eventually could help the next generation of artificial intelligence function less clumsily.


     
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