Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

Luis S. Piloto (), Ari Weinstein, Peter Battaglia and Matthew Botvinick
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Luis S. Piloto: DeepMind
Ari Weinstein: DeepMind
Peter Battaglia: DeepMind
Matthew Botvinick: DeepMind

Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, issue 9, 1257-1267

Abstract: Abstract ‘Intuitive physics’ enables our pragmatic engagement with the physical world and forms a key component of ‘common sense’ aspects of thought. Current artificial intelligence systems pale in their understanding of intuitive physics, in comparison to even very young children. Here we address this gap between humans and machines by drawing on the field of developmental psychology. First, we introduce and open-source a machine-learning dataset designed to evaluate conceptual understanding of intuitive physics, adopting the violation-of-expectation (VoE) paradigm from developmental psychology. Second, we build a deep-learning system that learns intuitive physics directly from visual data, inspired by studies of visual cognition in children. We demonstrate that our model can learn a diverse set of physical concepts, which depends critically on object-level representations, consistent with findings from developmental psychology. We consider the implications of these results both for AI and for research on human cognition.

Date: 2022
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