C50 CHAPTER FIFTY

I realize with excitement that I actually have an answer for him. “In my last year at Stanford, I was working on a project to program imitation learning techniques. We were trying to get our robot,” I lean in and smile, “—we called her Ginger—to learn behaviors by ‘observing’ an end- user performing them, without us having to program each action.

“It was our job to program her how to learn