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| ==== Cognitive Growth ==== | |
| | What it is | Changes in the cognitive controller (the core "thinking" part) over and beyond basic learning: After a growth burst of this kind the controller can learn differently/better/new things, especially new //categories// of things. | | |
| | Human example | [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRF27F2bn-A|Piaget's Stages of Development (youtube video)]] | | |
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| =====Empirical Reasoning Types===== | =====Empirical Reasoning Types===== |
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| ====Cumulative Learning==== | ====Cumulative Learning==== |
| | \\ What it Is | Unifies several separate research tracks in a coherent form easily relatable to AGI requirements: Multitask learning, lifelong learning, transfer learning and few-shot learning. | | | What it Is | Unifies several separate research tracks in a coherent form easily relatable to AGI requirements: Multitask learning, lifelong learning, transfer learning and few-shot learning. | |
| | \\ Multitask Learning | The ability to learn more than one task, either at once or in sequence. \\ The cumulative learner's ability to generalize, investigate, and reason will affect how well it implements this ability. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because knowledge is contextualized as it is acquired, meaning that the system has a place and a time for every tiny bit of information it absorbs.// | | | \\ Multitask Learning | The ability to learn more than one task, either at once or in sequence. \\ The cumulative learner's ability to generalize, investigate, and reason will affect how well it implements this ability. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because knowledge is contextualized as it is acquired, meaning that the system has a place and a time for every tiny bit of information it absorbs.// | |
| | \\ Online Learning | The ability to learn continuously, uninterrupted, and in real-time from experience as it comes, and without specifically iterating over it many times. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because new information, which comes in via experience, is //integrated// with prior knowledge at the time it is acquired, so a cumulative learner is //always learning// as it's doing other things.// | | | \\ Online Learning | The ability to learn continuously, uninterrupted, and in real-time from experience as it comes, and without specifically iterating over it many times. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because new information, which comes in via experience, is //integrated// with prior knowledge at the time it is acquired, so a cumulative learner is //always learning// as it's doing other things.// | |
| | \\ Few-Shot Learning | The ability to learn something from very few examples or very little data. Common variants include one-shot learning, where the learner only needs to be told (or experience) something once, and zero-shot learning, where the learner has already inferred it without needing to experience or be told. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because prior knowledge is transferrable to new information, meaning that (theoretically) only the delta between what has been priorly learned and what is required for the new information needs to be learned.// | | | \\ Few-Shot Learning | The ability to learn something from very few examples or very little data. Common variants include one-shot learning, where the learner only needs to be told (or experience) something once, and zero-shot learning, where the learner has already inferred it without needing to experience or be told. \\ //Subsumed by cumulative learning because prior knowledge is transferrable to new information, meaning that (theoretically) only the delta between what has been priorly learned and what is required for the new information needs to be learned.// | |
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| | ==== Cognitive Growth ==== |
| | | What it is | Changes in the cognitive controller (the core "thinking" part) over and beyond basic learning: After a growth burst of this kind the controller can learn differently/better/new things, especially new //categories// of things. | |
| | | Why it Matters | In humans, cognitive growth seems to be nature's method for ensuring safety when knowledge is extremely lacking. Instead of allowing a human baby to walk around and do things, nature makes human babies start with extremely primitive cognitive abilities that grow over time under the guidance of a competent caretaker. | |
| | | Human example | [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRF27F2bn-A|Piaget's Stages of Development (youtube video)]] | |
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