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

The Robot Brains Podcast

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What Kind of Children Do You Have?

Children are really well designed by evolution to do this kind of learning. And a lot of the things that look like bugs from the perspective of adult inference and functioning are actually features from the perspective of learning. So my slogan is that childhood is  evolution's way of doing simulated and kneeling and solving, explore, exploit problems.

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