Imitation & Innovation In AI - FoundersList

Speaker: Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley Talk Title: Imitation & Innovation in AI: What Four-year-olds Can Do & AI Can't (Yet) About Talk: Young children's learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). Comparing children & artificial agents in the same tasks & environments can help us understand the abilities of existing systems & create new ones. In particular, many current large data-supervised systems, such as large language models (LLMs), provide new ways to access information collected by past agents. However, they lack the kinds of exploration & innovation that are characteristic of children. New techniques may help to instantiate child-like curiosity, exploration & play in AI systems.