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Alison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learn

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Kids Love Remote Controls, Right?

There's some evidence that even infants, babies, already sort of thinking that if one ball hits another, then it will make the other go. But kids have no trouble understanding a remote control. So they seem to both get there's something weird about this, right? That's making it really, really interesting. It's not something that i already understand, but i can play with it enough. I click the buttons in different ways to figure out how it works. And i think thats we've done some experiments that show at if you take our blicka detector, for example, and you just have a blicket detector, we just wave it on top of the machine without its touching the

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