Elaine Burke
speaker
2,772 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Elaine Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So to train through reinforcement, you give rewards, and that's what you do with a dog.
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You know, when they do something good, you give them the little tree.
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In Crufts, they've got a pocket full of treats.
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That's how they get the dogs to do all the stuff.
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The treats for these machine based systems is just that they get like a big number.
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given to them.
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They love to gobble up big numbers.
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But they're trained to see that as a reward.
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If I get to the end of a goal, I'll get one of these big numbers and that's a good thing.
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And I'm using good just so that we understand what I'm talking about because the the system has no idea of what good, bad, and indifferent is.
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It just knows that the end goal needs to be get to the big number.
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And they'll find creative ways.
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Again, these are known things.
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They'll find creative ways to get to that endpoint that are, you know, not intended.
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And it means that they didn't go through the steps to complete the goal, they found a runaround.
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Sometimes it's described as cheating.
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It's not really cheating when you've got no moral compass though.
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It's actually just the system figuring stuff out.
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And I a really fun example of it is uh you know the Roomba vacuum cleaner.
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They were trying to minimize the amount of times it would, you know, bump up against stuff.
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