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Making
Machines
Curious
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emote and
autonomous
vehicles are now
helping us make discoveries
in places where humans
cannot easily go. A recent mission to
explore marine life at the bottom of the
Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Hawaii
and Mexico, over 5,000 meters below the
surface at its deepest point, discovered
over 30 potential new species.
These uncrewed underwater vehicles
(UUVs) are running missions that allow
humans to make better decisions (the
Clarion-Clipperton survey was conducted
to assess the impact of seabed
mining). They're also mapping the
unknown deep sea, following a trajectory
and mission instructions designed
before the dive, then " flying " just a few
meters off the seafloor for hours while
relaying data to a ship above them.
These are just two examples; vehicles
can be programmed to find old sea
mines buried in the ocean floor, inspect
pipelines for leaks, or search for lost
shipping containers.
The problem is, right now these
autonomous vehicles lack an important
trait-curiosity. They execute a pattern
(like a lawnmower search) or collect
data and pass it to humans to decide
which objects are interesting, and then
get directed back to those targets.
Soon these missions will be executed
with autonomous vehicles as true teammates,
where a machine is given a general
mission directive and a search area,
then is released to explore and make
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decisions about what needs further
inspection, instead of needing to be
remote-controlled or remain in constant
contact for instructions.
Curious machines can modify their
mission to get more information. They
don't just identify targets; they can realize
they've found a new kind of target.
They know enough to say, 'That looks
like a starfish, kind of, but it's not what I
was expecting. I need to know more.' Of
course, machines don't really speak like
this... yet. However, the recently established
field of XAI (Explainable AI) is
giving deep learning systems a voice
with which they can convey the reasons
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