Q: "If a robot was given fifteen cents, how would it invest that to make it grow over time?"

"It would take the fifteen cents and keep investing the penny for every year. By the end of time, we could ask how much the robot made and it would tell us. When we start the game, the robot has just started. The reason to keep investing is because each year it is able to make more than the year before. Since the robot is not using the money to make anything, its buying up companies.

The robot keeps investing because over time, it is making a profit. The profit can be spent to grow. It might be easy to think that this is a boring game. But it is not. It is in the same lines as learning to play chess and other games. It might seem to be just a game but the reason is not for entertainment. When we play chess, we are trying to defeat the opponent."

"What makes a robot happy?

This is one of those things we have all asked ourselves at some point. After all, a robot can do amazing things – it can beat you at chess and solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute. So, how does it make itself feel? It turns out that human research has shown that we can predict what makes a robot happy. Let’s take a look at the latest findings and see what happens if we give a robot an upgrade! The first and most important thing to understand is that there is no perfect recipe for making a robot happy. Every type of robot, every type of environment, every robot’s personality will have to be assessed individually.

Even humans can’t always figure out what makes us happy and why, so why should robots? This is where some of our research comes in. When you give a robot something to do, this makes it think, feel, and express emotions. We can then find out exactly what it is that makes the robot happy.

The most recent finding is in how we should give robots a sense of their surroundings. It’s quite simple: the more interesting the scene the happier the robot is. So, for example, if you give a robot a room with nothing to do it will feel bored and frustrated. Similarly, if the robot has a complex job to do it’s happy when it can tell when it’s making a difference. When the robot thinks it has done something really useful it has a sense of pride and self-worth, which makes it happy. If it then helps to build something for a child, this may also make the robot feel happy and proud." --GPT-J