Alison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learn
The Robot Brains Podcast
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Is There a Way to Test if Children Are Making Inferences From Statistics?
In the late nineties, parlel clark and his colleagues in philosophy c m u were doing work that was trying to show how you could do this formally and computationally. And my first thought about this is, well, let's figure out if that's what the kids are doing. And i have to say, clark's first reaction was, that's crazy. Like, this is something that, you know, it's really hard. Scientists not going to find little kids are going to be able to do it. Let's see. In the next ten years, as can we figure out a way of testing whe ther children are making causal inferences from statistics the same
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