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DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby
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DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby

Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.

Nature, 2022


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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems struggle to quantify human beings’ intuitive understanding of the world around them, even though such perceptions are readily developed by infants. Computer scientist Luis Piloto and his team modelled software that mimics infant cognition of basic objects. It allows AI, at the least, to express surprise at inexplicable changes in the physical realm.

Take-Aways

  • A new software, PLATO, allows AI to discern how objects behave, and express surprise at aberrations.
  • PLATO could represent a first step for testing infant learning behaviors through AI.

About the Author

Davide Castelvecchi, senior physical sciences reporter for Nature, covers physics, astronomy, math and technology subjects.


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