Revolution is changing that. You have warned me not to get too close. It does look a little bit hazardous. This robot dog hasnt been programmed to walk. Its learning by itself. Its called reinforcement learning. What weve done here is, weve given it this task to try to kind of stand up and move forward. When it does well, one of the Computer Scientists gives it the digital equivalent of a pat on the head. I can see its doing better and better. Its strong. I try and put that in its way, and its stronger than i am. Yeah. Have you trained it to make a beeline for me . Uhhuh. I feel like im battling the ai here, and the als winning. In just a few hours, its moving around by itself, even coping with the unexpected. Im really feeling an instinct to help it, but that is, of course, not good. You know, its learning, and maybe it looks a bit mean sometimes when we push it around, but, really, werejust trying to see what it can handle and help it learn new behaviours. This robot dog is the brain
I received a warning from uber. we detected fraudulent activity associated with your account. please stop. this is your first warning. the automated message said he might have manipulated trip details or falsely claimed money he wasn t entitled to but it couldn t be specific. i contacted uber, and the answer on the other end of the line was that, well, we don t know exactly what you have done wrong. it was something detected by the artificial intelligence. however, don t worry about it. just stop whatever you re doing wrong. another warning followed. he was on the verge of being fired. i don t know what i ve done wrong. i didn t change anything in my work. how can i stop something that i don t know? alexandru again complained to uber.
He received another message more than a year later. this time it was an apology. it was written by uber, black and white. they recognised that, look, the artificial intelligence made a mistake in your case. so, it is a single mistake made just against alexandru? or maybe. ..maybe the artificial intelligence, it failed to make the judgment correctly in his case, maybe failed in a few other cases. it turns out alexandru wasn t the only one. in april, uber and another taxi company were taken to court in the netherlands. the court said drivers had a right to know how decisions about them were being made, and criticised uberfor using automated decision making without enough human input. this is a cautionary tale
Picked up on is the increasing use of al to make really important decisions about people at work. decisions like who gets a job. decisions about how people do their work, who they do it with, where they do it, how quickly they have to do it. and then also, even decisions as significant as whether or not they lose or keep theirjob. in 2018, taxi driver alexandru joined uber. like most uber drivers, he s never actually met his boss. it s a job where we work alone. the only source of information would be your own experience and maybe chatting with other drivers. everything is done through his uber app. then, in the summer of 2021, alexandru got an email. it accused him of fraud. you are guilty or not guilty, there is no grey area in this.
How can i stop something that i don t know? - alexandru again complained to uber. he received another message more than a year later. this time it was an apology. it was written by uber, black and white. - they recognised that, look, i the artificial intelligence made a mistake in your case. so, it is a single mistake made just against alexandru? - or maybe. maybe the artificial intelligence, it failed to make the judgment l correctly in his case, maybe failed in a few other cases. it turns out alexandru wasn t the only one. in april, uber and another taxi company were taken to court in the netherlands. the court said drivers had a right to know how decisions