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At the centre Learning is not training: a child learns by actively trying things and seeing what happens, not by being shown what to do. Holds RSRichard Sutton Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution. Holds DADario Amodei
• Similar wording You only fail if you stop; iteration that keeps going is not failure, it is learning. Holds TFTony Fadell
• Similar wording There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it. Holds ISIlya Sutskever
• Similar wording Once a robot is good enough, you can teach it with words instead of with demonstrations, and language becomes a training signal for motor skill. Holds SLSergey Levine
• Similar wording A worked example whose scaffolding is progressively removed teaches faster than making a child figure the problem out unaided. Holds JLJoe Liemandt
• Similar wording You learn where something is by going to find it rather than by being told, and that act is the whole difference between seeing something and noticing it. Holds ACAlan Castel
• Similar wording There is no basic animal learning process called imitation; the basic processes are prediction and trial-and-error control. Holds RSRichard Sutton
• Similar wording Learning takes time, effort and sometimes pain, and no tool changes that, because that is how the brain is built. Holds FLFei-Fei Li