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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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The Explode, Explode Trade On

When I started doing the work in AI, one of the really, very, very general ideas that comes across again and again in computer science is this idea of the explore, exploit trade on. The idea is that you can't get a system that is simultaneously going to optimize for actually being able to do things effectively. That's the exploit part. And being able to figure out, search through all the possibilities. Any interesting space is too large to just search completely systematically. You're always going to have to choose which kinds of possibilities you want to consider.

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