Teaching Robots to Cope With Ambiguity - DZone IoT

Our attitude towards robots and automated systems seems to fall into two buckets. Either they'll be unthinking machines that do our every bidding, or they'll take the forms runaway intelligence that rapidly decide that they can do without humans. As with so much, the answer probably lies somewhere in between, and whilst most of the time it's only right for the machine to do as they're told, there will be instances where they will need to think for themselves and disobey. For instance, nursing robots may be ordered to give their patient some medication, but the machine knows that the medication had already been given that day and an overdose could be harmful. There are many instances such as that where robotic disobedience would be helpful, but programming such interactions is not easy.