{"id":337,"date":"2021-01-21T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/?p=337"},"modified":"2021-01-21T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:57:18","slug":"the-alignment-problem-how-can-machines-learn-human-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"The alignment problem: how can machines learn human values?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the excellent &#8211;\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions last year, I was pleased to see Brian Christian (@brianchristian) not only has a new book out but also he was presenting a virtual event at Ri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The presentation explored the ethical issues of Artificial Intelligence and what happens when it goes wrong, and is based on his new book\u00a0The alignment problem: how can machines learn human values?<\/p>\n<p>The presentation can be seen on the Ri YouTube channel<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The alignment problem: how can machines learn human values? | Brian Christian\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7zMzYfb89Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The journey starts in 1939 with &#8211; Bertrand Russel, Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch.\u00a0Citing examples such as machine learning issues in the judicial system and racial bias, the discussion moved onto the two key challenges<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Exo;\">The training data<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Exo;\">The objective function<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Examples where issues with training data caused undesirable consequences included offensive misclassification of photo and even a self driving car collision resulting in the death of a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of issues with objective function issues included ethical issues and how models can learn in unexpected ways to &#8220;game&#8221; the system to get what are unexpected outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Worth the donation to watch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the excellent &#8211;\u00a0Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions last year, I was pleased to see Brian Christian (@brianchristian) not only has a new book out but also he was presenting a virtual event at Ri. The presentation explored the ethical issues of Artificial Intelligence and what happens when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thx","tag-ai","tag-machine-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybermosaic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}