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At long last, robots have conquered one of the last bastions of human dominance: the grill.<\/p>
After training an artificial intelligence in a virtual reconstruction of a grill, Boston University engineers built a robot that can successfully cook and serve perfectly acceptable hot dogs to its human masters, Inverse <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>.<\/p> While it sounds like a minor triumph, the process of cooking and preparing food involves background knowledge<\/a> that humans take for granted but that has, until now, consistently tripped up AI systems.<\/p> The engineers found that the robot was able to reach the rank of grill master when they trained it using a process called reinforcement learning, according to research<\/a> published Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics<\/em>. Compared to the other kinds of AI they tried, reinforcement learning was by far the best method for the chef-in-training.<\/p> Reinforcement learning is an AI architecture<\/a> that basically incentivizes a system to gradually learn a new skill by coding it to perceive success as intrinsically rewarding.<\/p> When it came to cooking a hot dog, “success” included learning things like the correct order of actions — cook the meat and then<\/em> place it in a bun — as well as things people see as common knowledge, such as the fact that gravity remains a constant threat.<\/p> “You have to define things beforehand,” BU engineer Zahcary Serlin told Inverse<\/em>. “As long as I know what you mean by ‘grill’ when you say ‘grill,’ then I can learn to do the thing that has ‘grill’ in it.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> This ‘self-aware’ robot can cook and serve hot dogs<\/a> [Inverse<\/em>]<\/p> More on training robots: <\/strong>Hellishly Hard New Game Is Specifically Designed to Confound AI<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Finally, a Smart Robot That Can Cook and Serve Us Hot Dogs<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> View original post here: GrillBot At long last, robots have conquered one of the last bastions of human dominance: the grill. Continue reading Entry Level<\/h2>
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