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Re:DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by littlestymaar on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:31AM (#32066355)
> Also will we see robots throwing tantrums? Children learn this tactic early, and it works to achieve desired outcomes.

Sigh. Tantrum isn't a “learnt tactic” (it's the child's inability to control his frustration / other emotion) and it doesn't work to achieve desired outcome which is why they stop when the child is mature enough to have better emotional control (unless you're trying to raise a tyrannical child, in which case giving your child what he wants when he throws a tantrum is a good way to succeed…)

Re:DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by exodust on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:54AM (#32067680)
> Sigh.

Is sighing a learnt tactic? How about a written sigh, what's that about? Inability to use normal words?

I'm quite sure some "tantrums" are last resort efforts to reverse whatever decision the parent made that upset the child.

Re:DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by mdp2021 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:20AM (#32070362)
I think yours was a good question in a way (it may make sense in some contexts, and with undefined translation): it may be part of the "paperclip maximizer" idea of the strategies a non-commonsensical agent may adopt to achieve its goals.

In automated chip layout, for example, already one can be proposed odd NOP circuitry that reveals to be just relevant to timings - all tricks are possible.

"Sighs" could presumably be the reversal manouvers in decision trees walking.