What's big and scary and has 72% of American voters in agreement?

Artificial Intelligence

Vox's Seagull Samuel recently wrote about a UGov poll of 1,001 Americans, 42% of the

respondents aligned themselves with Donald Trump, 47% aligned themselves with Joe Biden,

but 72% of them said they would prefer we slow down the development of AI, while only

8% of them said speed it up, and there's good news for the 8%, more and more tech companies

and entertainment conglomerates and especially militaries want to figure out how they can advance

AI, even integrating it into their decision making. But it turns out, getting AI to do what you

want, the way you want it, is a lot harder than it seems. Our friends at Unexplainable

are going to help us cope on today's point.

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Rommus Firm, here to hand things off to Noam Hasenfeld from Unexplainable, who wants to tell you

a story. It's the story of a little boat. Specifically, a boat in this retro-looking online video game.

It's called Coastrunners, and it's a pretty straightforward racing game.

There are these power-ups that give you points if your boat hits them. There are obstacles to

dodge. There are these kind of lagoons where your boat can get all turned around.

And a couple of years ago, the research company OpenAI wanted to see if they could get an AI

to teach itself how to get a high score on the game, without being explicitly told how.

We are supposed to train a boat to complete a course from start to finish.

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