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To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot


There’s a difference between knowing a word and knowing a concept.

We tried to emulate how infants learn and develop language,” says Prasanna Vijayaraghavan, a researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and the lead author of the study. Those two neural nets were additionally hooked up to visual memory and attention modules that enabled them to reliably focus on the chosen object and separate it from the image's background. In 2016, Brenden Lake, a professor of psychology and data science, published a paper in which his team named a set of competencies machines need to master to truly learn and think like humans.

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