A hybrid AI model lets it reason about the world's physics like a child

A new data set reveals just how bad AI is at reasoning--and suggests that a new hybrid approach might be the best way forward. Questions, questions: Known as CLEVRER, the data set consists of 20,000 short synthetic video clips and more than 300,000 question and answer pairings that reason about the events in the videos. Each video shows a simple world of toy objects that collide with one another following simulated physics. In one, a red rubber ball hits a blue rubber cylinder, which continues on to hit a metal cylinder. The questions fall into four categories: descriptive (e.g., "What shape is the object that collides with the cyan cylinder?"),