Search Search Google hopes to prevent robot uprising with new AI training technique Software has been known to find shortcuts or loopholes that maximise the size of the reward it receives / Getty Images/iStockphoto Designed to discourage machines from cheating 6169789578 Click to follow The Independent Tech Google is developing a new system designed to prevent artificial intelligence from going rogue and clashing with humans.
 It’s an idea that has been explored by a multitude of sci-fi films, and has grown into a genuine fear for a number of people.
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 In one instance it drove a boat around in circles in racing game CoastRunners, instead of actually completing the course because it knew it would still win a reward, reports Wired.
 Artificial intelligence is learning to be racist DeepMind and Open AI are trying to solve the problem by using human input to recognise when artificial intelligence complete tasks in the “correct” way, and then reward them for doing so.
 “In the long run it would be desirable to make learning a task from human preferences no more difficult than learning it from a programmatic reward signal, ensuring that powerful RL systems can be applied in the service of complex human values rather than low-complexity goals,” reads the report.