Re:Why machine learning struggles with causality
by t0mas88 on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:38PM
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Indeed, but it comes really early in development. A 2 months old baby understands that if you smile at other people they will interact with you. And they'll try to use the to get more interaction / playing (in a very simple way) which also makes sense evolutionary because more attention from adults means higher chance of survival.
The illusion of causality is incredibly strong -- so much so that it's really hard to get people to give it up, even when faced with paradoxes (First Mover, quantum mechanics, multiple causation, etc.)
We don't come into the world with a fully formed sense of causality, and it appears over the course of months. But at least some of it may be wired into the hardware, like the language instinct. It's just that the wiring isn't done the day we leave the womb, and is influenced by what comes after.