{"id":104726,"date":"2020-04-04T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/three-questions-that-keep-me-up-at-night"},"modified":"2020-04-04T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T07:03:04","slug":"three-questions-that-keep-me-up-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/three-questions-that-keep-me-up-at-night","title":{"rendered":"Three Questions that Keep Me Up at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-questions-that-keep-me-up-at-night.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Google interview candidate recently asked me: \u201cWhat are three big science questions that keep you up at night?\u201d This was a great question because one\u2019s answer reveals so much about one\u2019s intellectual interests \u2014 here are mine:<\/p>\n<p><b>Q1: Can we imitate \u201c<i>thinking<\/i>\u201d from only observing behavior?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Suppose you have a large fleet of autonomous vehicles with human operators driving them around diverse road conditions. We can observe the decisions made by the human, and attempt to use imitation learning algorithms to map robot observations to the steering decisions that the human would take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google interview candidate recently asked me: \u201cWhat are three big science questions that keep you up at night?\u201d This was a great question because one\u2019s answer reveals so much about one\u2019s intellectual interests \u2014 here are mine: Q1: Can we imitate \u201cthinking\u201d from only observing behavior? Suppose you have a large fleet of autonomous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}