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LEDE: There’s lots of talk about artificial intelligence. But can engineers take it even a step further…and teach manners to robots?
Randy Atkins: Robots are likely to become more and more integrated into the work place and even our homes. Bertram Malle, a social cognitive scientist at Brown University, says that in order for robots to successfully assist humans...
Bertram Malle: …they better have an idea of how to behave well, how to behave appropriately, how to follow the social and moral norms that humans have set up.
Randy Atkins: Like, say, being quiet in a library. Malle’s working with engineers on an algorithm that allows robots to learn what behaviors are appropriate.
Bertram Malle: We feed it the information about multiple people behaving a certain way in a certain context, and the algorithm pieces together the pattern of consistent behavior that then indicates a norm.
Randy Atkins: Malle says it could be customized for various cultures. With the National Academy of Engineering, Randy Atkins, WTOP News.