Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already far ahead of us in certain areas – such as playing Go or crunching very large datasets – but in some ways AI lags far behind us humans.
For example, even little babies know instinctively, but AI has never been that intuitive. Now a new study introduces an AI called PLATO, inspired by research into how babies learn, that can think like a human baby can.
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PLATO stands for Physics Learning through Automatic Encoding and Tracking of Objects, and was trained through a series of videos designed to represent the same basic knowledge that babies have in the first few months of life.
“Fortunately, developmental psychologists have spent decades studying what babies know about the physical world and cataloging the different components or concepts that go into physical understanding,” says neuroscientist Luis Piloto of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence research lab in the UK. “Extending their work, we have created and open-sourced a physical concepts dataset. This synthetic video dataset draws inspiration from original developmental experiments to assess physical concepts in our models.”
The research was published in Nature Human Behavior.
