Project description
Smart machines mastering unknown situations
Despite the remarkable advancements in AI and neural networks, these systems have limited abilities compared to biological intelligence. AI systems are designed and optimised by experts, while biological systems are self-organised through a smaller genetic programme and have more diverse behavioural capabilities from birth. The EU-funded GROW-AI project aims to create machines with greater adaptability and general intelligence through a combination of artificial life, neurobiology and machine learning. Moreover, it will explore the potential of algorithmic growth for understanding and creating intelligence.
Objective
"Despite major advances in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the field of neural networks, these systems still pale in comparison to even simple biological intelligence. Current machine learning systems take many trials to learn, lack common-sense, and often fail even if the environment only changes slightly. The enormous potential of autonomous machines remains unfulfilled and we still lack robots to fill our dishwashers or go on autonomous search-and-rescue missions. The grand goal of GROW-AI is to create machines with a more general intelligence, allowing rapid adaption in unknown situations. In stark contrast to current neural networks, whose architectures are designed by human experts and whose large number of parameters are optimized directly, evolution does not operate directly on the parameters of biological nervous systems. Instead, these nervous systems are grown and self-organize through a much smaller genetic program that produces rich behavioral capabilities right from birth and the ability to rapidly learn. Neuroscience suggests this ""genomic bottleneck"" is an important regularizing constraint, allowing animals to generalize to new situations. However, currently there does not exist a solution to creating a similar system artificially. We address this challenge with two ambitious ideas. First, we will learn genomic bottleneck algorithms instead of manually designing them, exploiting recent advances in memory-augmented deep neural networks that can learn complex algorithms. In addition, we will co-optimize task generators that provide the agents with the most effective learning environments. Taking inspiration from the fields of artificial life, neurobiology, and machine learning, we will investigate if algorithmic growth is needed to understand and create intelligence. If successful, this project will greatly improve the autonomy of machines and significantly increase the range of real-world tasks they can solve."
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2021-COG
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2300 KOBENHAVN
Denmark
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