DeepMind Patent Gives AI Robots ‘Inner Speech’

DeepMind Patent Gives AI Robots ‘Inner Speech’

DeepMind wants to give its agents an inner monologue.  Google’s AI lab is seeking to patent “intra-agent speech to facilitate task learning,” a tool that would help AI agents or robots understand the world around them. The system would take in images and videos of someone performing a task and generate natural language to describe what’s happening using a language model. For example, a robot might watch a video of someone picking up a cup, while…