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Trends Cogn Sci November 2020 PMID 33041199

Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals.

Murray Shanahan, Matthew Crosby, Benjamin Beyret, Lucy Cheke

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Several discussions highlight key points from the article, such as the relationship between human common sense and animal cognition, with phrases like 'foundational for intelligence' and 'huge challenge' emphasizing the significance of the topic. The tone is generally supportive, with users expressing enthusiasm about the research and its potential applications in AI, contributing to a positive sentiment overall.

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  • Artificial intelligence struggles with common sense reasoning, which is crucial for its development.
  • Human common sense is built on fundamental skills shared with many animals, like understanding objects, spatial reasoning, and causality.
  • Animal cognition research provides valuable experimental methods and behavioral data that can enhance the training and evaluation of AI models using deep reinforcement learning in 3D settings.
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hardmaru
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from “Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals” open access pdf: https://t.co/DxitbIuev2

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Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/5F8TL3yKDA by Murray Shanahan, Matthew Crosby, Benjamin Beyret, & Lucy Cheke @mpshanahan @MaCroPhilosophy @BenBeyret @LucyCheke @DeepMind https://t.co/oG5rMgTj1V

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Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals "Besides evaluation, the animal cognition literature offers a rich source of behavioural data, which can serve as inspiration for RL tasks and curricula." https://t.co/ImvUqYY7ix https://t.co/Cvg2l1d9KW

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New paper - Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals - authors are Leverhulme CFI researchers at @Cambridge_Uni & @imperialcollege - @mpshanahan @MaCroPhilosophy @BenBeyret @LucyCheke @LeverhulmeTrust https://t.co/RuwcZlkd6l

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New paper! Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/Rr5ynCoJZu An understanding of everyday concepts such as objecthood, containers, obstructions, and paths is foundational for intelligence and we can learn from testing/existence in animals! https://t.co/EugF7WtEth

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Fredstar
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Understanding common sense remains a huge challenge in #ArtificialIntelligence. Recent research suggests that human common sense is rooted in basic capacities shared with many animals

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Shanahan, Murray, et al. "Artificial intelligence and the common sense of animals." Trends in cognitive sciences 24.11 (2020): 862-872. $TSLA $NOW $ORCL #Industry40 ☀️

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Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals: (Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24, 862–872, 2020) https://t.co/Y3jsoZS5kR

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Kai Olav Ellefsen
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Loving this paper, which suggests how to move towards Reinforcement Learning agents with more common sense by taking inspiration from animal cognition experiments: Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/Ea9FuBrEkG

Jun 9, 2021 · 1 like · 2 shares · 358 followers View post →
Ronen Tamari
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core knowledge of space, time, causality, ToM, e.g., @dileeplearning's https://t.co/RbMqvktdlF or @mpshanahan 's https://t.co/3MxbrUJmOz These aren't really possible to represent using just KGs, and are more aligned with multimodal/situated language learning settings.

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マーキュリー２世
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AIにヒトとして知っていて当然のことを実装するのは難しい。このような常識的なことは実は、他の多くの動物が持っているような物体、空間、因果律の理解に関する基本的能力のセットを基礎とする。Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/6tcXI44e0u

Apr 14, 2021 · 3 likes · 5,544 followers View post →
マーキュリー２世
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動物認知の研究では、これらの能力を研究するための多くの実験プロトコルを開発してきた。深層強化学習の進展のおかげでこれらの方法を適用し、3D環境で強化学習エージェントを直接評価することも可能になっている。Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/6tcXI44e0u

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マーキュリー２世
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動物認知研究はその他にも、行動データの豊富なソースで、強化学習の課題やカリキュラムのインスピレーションとしての役割を果たすこともできる。Artificial Intelligence and the Common Sense of Animals https://t.co/6tcXI44e0u

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