{"id":183868,"date":"2024-02-28T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/enter-the-gridworld-using-geometry-to-detect-danger-in-ai-environments"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:25:46","slug":"enter-the-gridworld-using-geometry-to-detect-danger-in-ai-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/enter-the-gridworld-using-geometry-to-detect-danger-in-ai-environments","title":{"rendered":"Enter the gridworld: Using geometry to detect danger in AI environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A state complex (left) of a 3x3 gridworld with one agent and one object (right)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/916608011?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"299\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spacetime is a conceptual model that fuses the three dimensions of space (length, width, and breadth) with the fourth dimension of time. By doing so, a four-dimensional geometric object is created. Researchers have recently used a similar way of thinking to study AI environments, leading to a unique reframing of AI problems in geometric terms.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomas Burns, a Ph.D. graduate and Visiting Researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), and Dr. Robert Tang, a mathematician at Xi\u2019an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and a former post-doctoral researcher at OIST, wanted to study AI systems from a geometric perspective to more accurately represent their properties.<\/p>\n<p>They have determined that the occurrence of a \u201cgeometric defect,\u201d a failure of what is called Gromov\u2019s Link Condition, correlates exactly to where there is potential for collision between moving AI agents. Their findings have been published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=t4p612DftO\">Transactions on Machine Learning Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacetime is a conceptual model that fuses the three dimensions of space (length, width, and breadth) with the fourth dimension of time. By doing so, a four-dimensional geometric object is created. Researchers have recently used a similar way of thinking to study AI environments, leading to a unique reframing of AI problems in geometric terms. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183868","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}