Robot learns to use tools by ‘watching’ YouTube videos

[froggyboy604]

Robot watches videos to detect objects and how to grasp them. “Hmmm, so that’s how to hold and slice a soft spherical red object by holding a slicing-tool with a ‘power small diameter’ type grip, while avoiding damage to my gripper hand. Got it.” (Credit: Yezhou Yang et al.)
 
Imagine a self-learning robot that can enrich its knowledge about fine-grained manipulation actions (such as preparing food)simply by “watching” demo videos. That’s the idea behind a new robot-training system based on recent developments of “deep neural networks” in computer vision, developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and NICTA in Australia.
 
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I'm not sure if YouTube is the best source of videos for learning to do stuff since many YouTube videos on learning to do stuff with tools, are created by amateurs, less experience users, beginners, kids and adults who want to quickly make a few hundred to thousand dollars from YouTube Ads by quickly posting hundreds to thousands of videos every year, and not care as much for making very useful videos.
 
There are also a lot of joke, and troll videos on YouTube which uses tools the wrong way, or use tools wrongly to troll users,

 

[Demon_Skeith]

So they are already making self aware robots then?

 

[froggyboy604]

So they are already making self aware robots then?

Yes, but they are learning really simple tasks like buttering corn from YouTube videos.

I wonder if YouTube, and its advertisers want robots watching their videos since YouTube Bots which increases the number of views on videos or to trick Google Adsense into paying more money to the YouTube video maker is against the "Terms of Service" since advertisers on YouTube still have to pay money for ad views especially those in-video video ads and large banner ads, and YouTube  would lose a lot of their advertisers if most of the views on YouTube in the future are by robots because advertising to robots is a waste of money because robots won't buy a copy of a video game after seeing a YouTube ad for a game like TitanFall or Destiny.

I bet, if too many of these robots watch videos at once, it can slowdown YouTube's performance since playing billions of videos to a lot of robots at once may make YouTube slow down because of the huge amount of bandwidth needed to stream a lot of videos to many robots at once. 

 

[Demon_Skeith]

my problem is them learning something bad.

 

[Claraviolet]

my problem is them learning something bad.

Come on Demon_Skeith, there are scary humans too. It's the twisted human, that creates a robot like that.

 

[froggyboy604]

my problem is them learning something bad.

According to the article, these robots are only programmed to search for cooking videos to watch, so they just spend all day watching cooking videos. 

At least, these robots are only using YouTube which generally mostly have Kid to Teen rated videos, and some more adult-themed video of a girl wearing a bikini dancing.

Most YouTube gun videos are also not very violent, and only show people shooting a iPhones, Playstation and Xbox consoles with a gun.

LiveLeak is a more violent online streaming video site which has videos of the Taliban, ISIS, and ISIL torturing innocent people like journalists who are just doing their job by reporting on the News in the Middle East.