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Josh Bongard interview: The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world
WHO’S in charge, your brain or your body? The answer may seem obvious, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that our physiology has dramatically affected the way we think. This idea of embodied cognition could hold important lessons for those trying to build genuinely intelligent machines – artificial intelligences that learn and think and can generalise their knowledge to all manner of tasks,…
The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do | MIT News
To make our way through the world, our brain must develop an intuitive understanding of the physical world around us, which we then use to interpret sensory information coming into the brain. How does the brain develop that intuitive understanding? Many scientists believe that it may use a process similar to what’s known as “self-supervised…
World predicted to break 1.5°C warming limit for first time in 2024
A fire in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 November – a potential result of extreme weather brought about by climate change Australian Associated Press/Alamy Next year could be the first where the average global surface temperature is more than 1.5°C warmer than the pre-industrial era, according to a forecast by the UK’s Met…