Learning like a baby: a survey of artificial intelligence approaches

Frank Guerin; Frank Guerin

doi:10.1017/S0269888911000038

Abstract: One of the major stumbling blocks for artificial intelligence remains the commonsense knowledge problem. It is not clear how we could go about building a program which has all the commonsense knowledge of the average human adult. This has led to growing interest in the ‘developmental’ approach, which takes its inspiration from nature (especially the human infant) and attempts to build a program which could develop its own knowledge and abilities through interaction with the world. The challenge here is to find a learning program which can continuously build on what it knows, to reach increasingly sophisticated levels of knowledge. This survey reviews work in this area, with the emphasis on those that focus on early learning, for example, sensorimotor learning. The concluding discussion assesses the progress thus far and outlines some key problems which have yet to be addressed, and whose solution is essential to achieve the goals of the developmental approach.

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Learning like a baby: a survey of artificial intelligence approaches

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Corresponding author: Frank Guerin

Published online: 12 May 2011

Abstract: Abstract: One of the major stumbling blocks for artificial intelligence remains the commonsense knowledge problem. It is not clear how we could go about building a program which has all the commonsense knowledge of the average human adult. This has led to growing interest in the ‘developmental’ approach, which takes its inspiration from nature (especially the human infant) and attempts to build a program which could develop its own knowledge and abilities through interaction with the world. The challenge here is to find a learning program which can continuously build on what it knows, to reach increasingly sophisticated levels of knowledge. This survey reviews work in this area, with the emphasis on those that focus on early learning, for example, sensorimotor learning. The concluding discussion assesses the progress thus far and outlines some key problems which have yet to be addressed, and whose solution is essential to achieve the goals of the developmental approach.

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The author thank Jeffrey Donner for providing links to many papers.

See, for example, the CogAff project http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/gc/

Their agent operates in an abstract domain, and so the work is not quite within the scope of this review; however, the work is so close technically that it is worth including for purposes of comparison.

Introduction to bootstrap learning from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/qr/robotics/bootstrap-learning.html

Piaget's schema concept has been introduced in Section 3.1.

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Frank Guerin. 2011. Learning like a baby: a survey of artificial intelligence approaches. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 26:38 doi: 10.1017/S0269888911000038

Frank Guerin. 2011. Learning like a baby: a survey of artificial intelligence approaches. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 26:38 doi: 10.1017/S0269888911000038

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