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Briefing
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- Talk the Walk Project – Social media giant Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group experimented with two AI systems that learned to navigate around simulated New York City environment using synthetic and natural language
- Tourist AI – One AI acted as tourist, fed only with 360 degree views of New York City neighborhoods, and tasked to reach certain location
- Guide AI – Another AI acted as guide, using only 2D map to help tourist AI reach location
- Study Goal – Understand language and communication development through interaction, sharing work with other researchers to test AI systems
- Study Results – AI bots performed navigation and guiding tasks better than human agents, both while using synthetic and natural language
- Potential Application – Include AI navigation assistants, including for blind, as well as robots and virtual assistants that can do errands by communicating with people
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Facebook Inc.
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Source
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Kiela, D. and Weston, J., "Talk the Walk: Teaching AI systems to navigate New York through language",
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Knight, W., "Facebook’s AI tourist finds its way around New York City by asking for help from another algorithm",
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Matney, L., "Facebook’s AI researchers task ‘tourist bots’ with finding their way in NYC",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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July 11, 2018
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