Week 4 Autonomous Machines 1 Decision Making Decision

Week 4 - Autonomous Machines 1. Decision Making • Decision support systems • Machines deciding 2. Smart Appliances 3. Autonomous cars • Driver assist • Self-driving cars 4. Airplanes 5. Autonomous weapons • Piloted drones • Machines choosing targets 6. Paying Jeopardy MAY 16

Visions of the Future Metropolis - Fritz Lang (4 mins) Sleeper - Jewish Robot Tailors (1. 5 min) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Vision of year 2000 from Paris Exposition 1890 2

Smart appliances mins) Samsung Smart Fridge [PARODY] (2 mins) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 10 AMAZING Future Home Technologies (6 3 Home 2025 - GE Appliance Design Ideas (3 mins)

Who is in Charge? Human in charge. A machine crunches the data and suggests a range of alternative actions to a human who makes the decision. i. e. the MYCIN system. § Machine in charge. i. e. a driverless car. What’s Up With AI? Session 4 § 4

Self-Driving Cars 5 Today - Cruise control, lane-changing warning signals, automatic breaking • Goal – Autonomous operation, no driver needed • Accidents – 5 million each year in U. S. 35, 000 deaths, 2015. 93% driver error. • Accidents cost $230 billion each year. • Case for autonomous cars : • Reduce accidents • Use roads more efficiently • Allow lower cost taxi/ride services • Enable seniors, children and the disabled to travel independently What’s Up With AI? Session 4 •

Google Cars Sebastian Thrun on Future of A. I. , Self-Driving Cars (11 mins) Google's Self-Driving Car Project Is Losing Out to Rivals (4 mins) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Google autonomous vehicle: how do Google's self-driving cars work (2 mins) 6

Uber Cars Uber Tests Autonomous Cars - NYTimes. com (3 mins) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 We Take a Ride in the Self-Driving Uber (2 mins) 7 Carnegie Mellon University's robotics center. In January 2015 Uber hired away 50 engineers and computer scientists. They simply walked across a shared parking lot to an old chocolate factory Uber had renovated. Later Uber and CMU went public with what the pair called a strategic partnership

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Tesla Cars 9 Tesla's Autopilot System Is Creepy And Wonderful (2 mins) Tesla’s First Driverless Car Death Has Roots in American History (2 mins) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Elon Musk Says Every New Tesla Will Drive Itself (2 mins)

Ethics of Autonomous Cars The Messy Ethics of Self Driving Cars (6 mins) Autonomous cars make these decisions automatically following an algorithm based on: • Heuristics – Rules of thumb • Preferences (set by ? ? ? ) • Experience (from collected data) Stanford researchers discuss the ethics of autonomous vehicles (2 mins) What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Human drivers constantly make decisions § Changing lanes § Avoiding obstacles § Slowing to allow entering traffic § Extreme case – Hit the running child or veer and go over the cliff § 10

Can Cars be Hacked? What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway— With Me in It (5 mins) 11 Charlie Miller Keynote, Automotive Security: A Hacker's Eye View (50 mins)

Airplane Pilots 12 pilot – Handles routine tasks such as stabilizing airplane and keeping it on the flight path in the face of changing conditions. It alerts pilots to dangers. Pilot – Concurs with ground controllers, updates the flight plan and takes charge in emergencies and sometimes in landing and takeoff. Hybrid System – Automatic pilot may take control in an emergency. The fight for control is dangerous as evidenced by crashes of Boeing 737 Max. Autonomous plane – No pilot at all What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Automatic

Autopilot in Action • Airplane! Movie CLIP - Automatic Pilot (1980) 2 mins What’s Up With AI? Session 4 • The basics of autopilot on an aircraft 9 mins 13

Autonomous Weapons Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons - NY Times Nov 2018 What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Autonomous weapons could change battlefields of the future (4 mins ) 14

IBM Watson is a computer system that can answer questions posed in natural language. In 2011 Watson won a $1, 000 prize in Jeopardy against human opponents. In 2013, Watson was deployed at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to make management decisions in lung cancer treatment. What’s Up With AI? Session 4 Watson 15

What’s Up With AI? Session 4 16 IBM's Watson Supercomputer Destroys Humans in Jeopardy (4 mins)