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Yann LeCun explains why Facebook would crumble without AI

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Early Childhood Learning - Prediction

A relaxed version of learning in those first few months is my impression, if i can remember anything of it, it feels learning in school is much a harder work. A lot of internal structure about the world that we learn by training yourself to predict lots of things that we can't directly observe. Ah, you know that if i hold object and i let it go, it's going to fall, right? Babies learn this around the edge of nine months. They learn about the fact that unsupported objects fall because of gravity around the edge of 9 months. It takes them all this time to figure out the physics, if you want, of intuitive physics of the world.

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