Artificial Intelligence Systems Learn to Teach Each Other

WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) – A new international project is creating advanced artificial intelligence, AI, programs that will enable machines to learn progressively over a lifetime and share those experiences with each other. Uses of this new technology could include co-operating self-learning autonomous vehicles such as self-driving cars, robotic rescue and exploration systems, distributed monitoring systems to detect emergencies, or cybersecurity systems of agents that monitor large networks. Researchers hope the technology will allow machines to reuse information, adapt quickly to new conditions and collaborate by sharing information. The project is part of the initiative Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning, or ShELL, a program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. This U.S. government military agency is credited with some of the biggest technological advances in recent history such as the Internet, the miniaturization of GPS, Siri, and the computer mouse.