{"id":339191,"date":"2021-09-14T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/researchers-lay-the-groundwork-for-an-ai-hive-mind\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:59:55","slug":"researchers-lay-the-groundwork-for-an-ai-hive-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/researchers-lay-the-groundwork-for-an-ai-hive-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"#Researchers lay the groundwork for an AI hive mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Researchers lay the groundwork for an AI hive mind<\/strong>”
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Intel\u2019s AI division is one of the unsung heroes of the modern machine-learning movement. It\u2019s talented researchers have advanced the state of AI chips, neuromorphic computing, and deep learning. And now they\u2019re turning their sights on the unholy grail of AI: the hive mind.<\/p>\n

Okay, that might be a tad dramatic. But every great science<\/a> fiction horror story has to start somewhere.<\/p>\n

And Intel\u2019s amazing advances in the area of multiagent evolutionary reinforcement learning<\/em><\/a> (MERL) could make a great origin story for the Borg<\/a> \u2013 a sentient AI that assimilates organic species into its hive mind, from Star Trek.<\/p>\n

MERL, aside from being a great name for a fiddle player, is Intel\u2019s new method for teaching machines how to collaborate.<\/p>\n

Per an Intel press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve developed MERL, a scalable, data-efficient method for training a team of agents to jointly solve a coordination task. \u2026 A set of agents is represented as a multi-headed neural network with a common trunk. We split the learning objective into two optimization processes that operate simultaneously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new system is complex and involves novel machine-learning techniques, but the basic ideas behind it are actually fairly intuitive.<\/p>\n

AI systems don\u2019t have what the French call une raison d\u2019exister<\/em>. In order for a machine to do something, it needs to be told what to do.<\/p>\n

But, often, we want AI systems to do things without being told what to do. The whole point of a machine learning paradigm is to get the machine to figure things out for itself.<\/p>\n

However, you still need to make the AI learn the stuff you want it to and forget everything else.<\/p>\n

For example, if you\u2019re trying to teach a robot to walk you want it to remember how to move its legs in tandem and forget about trying to solve the problem by hopping on one foot.<\/p>\n

This is accomplished through reinforcement learning<\/em>, the RL in MERL. Researchers tweak the AI\u2018s training paradigm to ensure it\u2019s rewarded whenever it accomplishes a goal, thus keeping the machine on task.<\/p>\n

If you think about AI in the traditional sense, it works a lot like a single agent (basically, one robot brain) trying to solve a giant problem on its own.<\/p>\n

So, for an AI brain responsible for making a robot walk, the AI has to figure out balance, kinetic energy, resistance, and what the exact limits of its physical parts are. This is not only time-consuming \u2013 often requiring hundreds of millions of iterative attempts \u2013 but it\u2019s also expensive.<\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s MERL system allows multiple agents (more than one AI brain) to attack a larger problem by breaking it down into individual tasks that can then be handled by individual agents. The agents collaborate in order to speed up learning across each task. Once the individual agents train up on their tasks, a control agent utilizes the sum of training to organize a method by which the entire goal is accomplished \u2013 in our example, making a robot walk.<\/p>\n

If this system was people instead of AI, it\u2019d be like the hit 1980s cartoon Voltron<\/em><\/a>, where individual pilots fly individual vehicles but they come together to form a giant robot that\u2019s more powerful than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n

But since we\u2019re talking about AI, it\u2019s probably more helpful to view it more like the aforementioned Borg. Instead of a single AI brain controlling all the action, MERL gives AI the ability to form a sort of brain network.<\/p>\n

One might even be tempted to call it a non-sentient hive mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“#Researchers lay the groundwork for an AI hive mind” Intel\u2019s AI division is one of the unsung heroes of the modern machine-learning movement. It\u2019s talented researchers have advanced the state of AI chips, neuromorphic computing, and deep learning. And now they\u2019re turning their sights on the unholy grail of AI: the hive mind. Okay, that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/09\/borgcube.jpg&signature=3f2568c9fafe1daeaffa3bcb4690159a","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}