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Adapting AI behavior using neural signatures of subjective interest (arxiv.org)
1 point by gwern on Feb 15, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Brain signals reveal what a passenger finds interesting and act as extra reward, so a self-driving AI slows near those things instead of chasing objective scores. It kept a safe distance behind the lead car while adding 20% more viewing time for interesting objects.

Abstract · Towards personalized human AI interaction - adapting the behavior of AI agents using neural signatures of subjective interest

Reinforcement Learning AI commonly uses reward/penalty signals that are objective and explicit in an environment -- e.g. game score, completion time, etc. -- in order to learn the optimal strategy for task performance. However, Human-AI interaction for such AI agents should include additional reinforcement that is implicit and subjective -- e.g. human preferences for certain AI behavior -- in order to adapt the AI behavior to idiosyncratic human preferences. Such adaptations would mirror naturally occurring processes that increase trust and comfort during social interactions. Here, we show how a hybrid brain-computer-interface (hBCI), which detects an individual's level of interest in objects/events in a virtual environment, can be used to adapt the behavior of a Deep Reinforcement Learning AI agent that is controlling a virtual autonomous vehicle. Specifically, we show that the AI learns a driving strategy that maintains a safe distance from a lead vehicle, and most novelly, preferentially slows the vehicle when the human passengers of the vehicle encounter objects of interest. This adaptation affords an additional 20\% viewing time for subjectively interesting objects. This is the first demonstration of how an hBCI can be used to provide implicit reinforcement to an AI agent in a way that incorporates user preferences into the control system.

Victor Shih, David C Jangraw, Paul Sajda, Sameer Saproo
arXiv:1709.04574 · cs.HC, cs.AI, eess.SY, stat.ML · submitted Sep 14, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

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