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DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby

Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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Inspired by research into how infants learn, computer scientists have created a program that can pick up simple physical rules about the behaviour of objects — and express surprise when they seem to violate those rules. The results were published on 11 July in Nature Human Behaviour1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01921-7

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  1. Piloto, L. S., Weinstein, A., Battaglia, P. & Botvinick, M. Nature Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01394-8 (2022).

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