Alison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learn
The Robot Brains Podcast
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Is It Possible to Study Reactor Learning in Children?
Gan: I'm curious, when you put for it an objective like curiosity, which is often done in reinforcement learning, it's still a specific objective. So i think there's a lot o laura and elizabeth bonwits, who's now at harvard, have done experiments that show kids will play more with something that's causally confounded than something where the causal structure is obvious. Gan: The challenging thing at the moment is, can we go beyond information gain? But what seems to be going on in play and exploration in kids is like beyond just trying to get more information.
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