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    1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      Idle observation: my (almost) 6-month old was able to figure out how to grasp a tiny ball cookie (1cm diameter) and put it in his mouth in ~5 attempts upon seeing the cookie for the first time. Extremely high problem complexity, extremely very low training sample size.

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    2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      This is obvs not learning from scratch since he has been practicing manipulating objects for several hundreds of hours. however it *is* his first time manipulating something this small, which requires entirely different strategies. His previous objects had been more like ~5-15cm

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    3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      Fascinating bit is that he tried a variety of approaches before converging towards a solution: try with one hand, try with the other hand, try to pick the object from the floor with his mouth directly (a completely different strategy!)

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    4. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      One attempt he brought his hand to his mouth thinking he had grabbed the cookie, though he had not. So he has a model of what was supposed to happen after attempting to grab the cookie. Then he saw the cookie was still there and tried again.

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    5. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      Interestingly the most difficult part wasn't grabbing the cookie (despite its never-seen-before size) but dropping it in his mouth (since he's grabbing with his palm, not his fingertips. Still managed to do it in a couple of attempts.

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      François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet Oct 19

      He locks on a goal and keep trying until he reaches the goal. Has a clear model of what success means, what the key steps towards success are (grabbing, bringing hand to mouth, dropping cookie), and is able to invent novel strategies for each step in a handful of attempts.

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        1. Trickler‏ @TricklerHQ Oct 19
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          Are these observations based on a blank slate thesis? Evolutionary perspective would help explain alot, like a vast prior over the entire domain.

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        1. lets get this deal closed now‏ @getitclosedplz Oct 19
          Replying to @fchollet

          I found my son in his crib once repeatedly trying to grasp a loose thread with pincer grip. He tried over & over until success. Then he tugged as if to validate true success. Then he very clearly released on purpose and started trying again. Brain dev is 🤯

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        1. Joseph Gardi‏ @jgleoj23 Oct 19
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          He is visualizing how to do it in his head before actually doing it

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        1. Gene's World‏ @EuPatrunjel Oct 19
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          More primal than developing the hand eye coordination is why "seeing" is not enough. Instinctively, we need to learn about things by tasting them or by doing things to know what they are. Biological Intelligence. 🤔😄

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        1. All.Deep.Learning‏ @AllDeepLearning Oct 19
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          I think the AI community is underestimating the value of overfitting and its power to eliminate the need for large training data sets.

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        1. Tailwiz‏ @tailwiz Oct 19
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          Always have been fascinated how well pre programmed our brain is. Nature somehow found robust right set of initial weights/configuration. Needle in a hay-galaxy.

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        2. Martin Gale‏ @pengch0308 Oct 19
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          @readwiseio save thread

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          First public save of this thread! 🏆 Readwise users: Like this reply to save fchollet's thread to your account without cluttering their replies 📚 Stats: • 67 total saves of fchollet's threads (ranked #473)

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        1. Martin Gale‏ @pengch0308 Oct 19
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        1. Nicholas Shanks‏ @nickshanks_ Oct 20
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          Looking forward to how he handles internet cookies.

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