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The Ultimate Learning Machines - WSJ

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The future of artificial intelligence depends on designing computers that can think and explore as resourcefully as babies do.

By Alison Gopnik Oct. 11, 2019 11:00 am ET Last July, I went to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the blue-sky government research lab that helped to invent the computer and the internet. I was there, strange as it may seem, to talk about babies. The latest big DARPA research project, Machine Common Sense, is funding collaborations between child psychologists like me and computer scientists. This year I also talked about children’s minds at Google, Facebook and Apple. Why are quintessentially geeky places like DARPA and Google suddenly interested in talking about something

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