Taking Machine Learning to the Next Level

Ethics are an Issue Don't kid yourself--introducing self-learning robots that can learn faster and better than humans will come with a huge range of issues. On our end, we can only program them to the extent of our human knowledge, which is always going to be limited. If we forget to set system safeties, we could have serious trouble on our hands in terms of public safety. On the other end, the question remains: do we really want to create a world of computers that think--and do--via their own free will, especially when they are smarter than humans? That's definitely an issue we need to reflect on before jumping too far into the reinforcement learning landscape.