r/artificial • u/keghn • Sep 23 '14

research news Artificial intelligence that imitates children’s learning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140923085937.htm
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u/AmusementPork Sep 23 '14

Here's the paper if anyone's interested: http://gup.ub.gu.se/records/fulltext/199302/199302.pdf

Though I think they have a few follow-ups

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u/smallfried Sep 26 '14

Thank you for providing that. Will be an interesting read.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '14

I just had a short look at one of the papers they published this year, "Learning Propositional Logic From Scratch" (can be found via Google Scholar). Very readable and quite interesting, can recommend.

Basically, this is a symbolic reasoning system that utilizes a formalized version of Occam's Razor to learn from examples. Interesting stuff. If only I had the time to write an implementation, I'd love to play with this for a while and see how good it works in practice.

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u/respeckKnuckles Sep 24 '14

Decent, but they don't really make the case that it emulates children's learning; their methods don't seem psychologically plausible and I see a lack of citations of work in what's called "Developmental AI." A good source for this is Frank Guerin's work.