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Inspired by research into how infants learn, computer scientists have created a program that can learn 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. Developmental psychologists test how babies follow the motion of objects by tracking their gaze. When shown a video of, for example, a ball that suddenly disappears, the children express surprise, which researchers measure by how long they stare in a particular direction. Luis Piloto, a computer scientist at Google-owned company DeepMind in London, and his collaborators wanted to develop a similar test for artificial intelligence (AI).