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But humans learn by themselves, from observing the world around them and drawing conclusions. Which is a major advantage and a core problem in strong AI.

The only reason it works is that a lot of humans put a lot of effort into more or less figuring out exactly how to ride a bike. It doesn't generalize at all, teaching the same robot to ride a skateboard would mean doing it all over again.




>It doesn't generalize at all, teaching the same robot to ride a skateboard would mean doing it all over again.

This doesn't sound right, but I'm just a curious layman when it comes to AI.

I'm thinking AlphaGo vs. AlphaZero. Hypothetically couldn't the same relation exist between an AlphaBike and AlphaRide?


Yes, and not just hypothetically; more generally, transfer learning is definitely a thing, and has been shown to reduce training requirements for unrelated tasks.




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