In a previous article, we looked at a study wherein researchers looked at how AI and children fared when tasked to solve some basic problems to measure their creativity and innovation. The result of that study showed how AI can be lacking in recognizing simple answers to basic questions, something the children had excelled at. Granted, the researchers admitted the difficulty of comparing and measuring human cognitive ability against an AI, but the study did show what some weaknesses in AI models might be.
This time around, in the saga of AI vs. Humans, a couple of researchers wanted to challenge humans with a game titled "How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car". The object of the game is simple. People must traverse a short crossing without being identified by the AI as a pedestrian. The goal of the study is to help AI models familiarize itself with various scenarios a self-driving car might encounter on the street. In so doing, it can help self-driving cars become safer.
As a prize for winning the game, players have the option of having their footage deleted or retained. Of course, it doesn't mean that employing tactics to avoid detection by a self-driving car implies that you will get hit, as self-driving cars use different algorithms. The researchers hope to bring their study to different parts of the world to gather as much data from various scenarios to help the algorithm learn.
(Video credit: Watershed/Youtube)
Here's another video of the game from Science Gallery London.