A small startup in Oxford, England says it has achieved an important breakthrough in AI safety that could make self driving cars, robots, and other AI-based products far more reliable for widespread use.
Align AI, a one-year-old company, says it has developed a new algorithm that allows AI systems to form more sophisticated associations that are more akin to human concepts. The achievement, if it holds up in real world testing, could overcome a common problem with current AI systems, which often draw spurious correlations from the data they're trained on, leading to disastrous consequences outside the lab.
