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Anca Dragan on why Asimov's three laws of robotics need updating

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Do You Really Want Me to Optimise for This?

The holy grail is that i write down my objective and the robot thinks about it. And then you, peter, can go and say, oh, no, that is not what i want, and sort of be able to revise things. I think that the same thing should happen with experts as well. Can robots give us a hand at a at figuring out what we should be writing down, specifying for them to do in the first place? Ok. The holy grail here is, if i, i'm going to come up with this very exaggerated, silly example: Let's say that i make a navigation robot, and it's for largely for, you know, the ber

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