DARPA's new tech lets robots learn from YouTube videos

07 Feb 2015 • engadget.com

While we’re still far from teaching robots complicated skills using just a playlist of YouTube clips, a University of Maryland research team is in the very early stages of making that happen. The team’s research is funded by DARPA’s Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution (MSEE) program, which aims to teach machines not only how to collect data, but also how to act on it.

I’m already seriously afraid of truly intelligent robots. But if anything could be worse it would be really stupid robots watching YouTube all day and then trying to act out what they’ve learned.