Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Al technologies
The common-sense core Human thought is structured around a basic understanding of physical objects, intentional agents, and their interactions - intuitive physics (forces, masses...) and psychology (desires, beliefs, plans...)
Common-sense scene understanding
The common sense core
Engineering the common-sense core?
Engineering the common-sense core Probabilistic programs
Intuitive physics in blocks world
(Battaglia, Hamrick, Tenenbaum, PNAS 2013) Probabilistic IPE
The intuitive physics engine (Battaglia, Hamrick. Tenenbaum, PNAS 2013)
Probabilistic dynamics in 12 month olds
Physical scene parsing
Theory building as program induction ( program-learning programs)
Development of physics in infants
Intuitive physics in the brain
Intuitive physics in neural circuits?
Conclusion The core of common sense: Human thought is structured around a basic understanding of physical objects, intentional agents, and their interactions
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MITCBMM