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Could robots really run the world?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Difficulty of Acquiring New Skills for Robots

Cleverbot is an AI that's just running and learning. It figured out how to master Breakout, where it would send the little ball up to the top and knock out all of the, all of the little tiles that way. Then it started playing games like the little shooter games where you're flying in an airplane like 1942. But it mastered them where it wouldn't die. It could beat the game. And that is the potential we can do here. That's one of the things that can be difficult for robots as well is to acquire new skills.

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