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"In a world rife with opposing views, let’s draw attention to something we can
all agree on: if I show you my pen, and then hide it behind my back, my pen
still exists – even though you can’t see it anymore. We can all agree it still
exists, and probably has the same shape and colour it did before it went behind
my back. This is just common sense.
These common-sense laws of the physical world are universally understood by
humans. Even two-month-old infants share this understanding. But scientists are
still puzzled by some aspects of how we achieve this fundamental understanding.
And we’ve yet to build a computer that can rival the common-sense abilities of
a typically developing infant.
New research by Luis Piloto and colleagues at Princeton University – which I’m
reviewing for an article in
Nature Human Behaviour – takes a step towards
filling this gap. The researchers created a deep-learning artificial
intelligence (AI) system that acquired an understanding of some common-sense
laws of the physical world.
The findings will help build better computer models that simulate the human
mind, by approaching a task with the same assumptions as an infant."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
