Kids Run the Darndest Experiments: Causal Learning in Children with Alison Gopnik - #548

Today we close out the 2021 NeurIPS series joined by Alison Gopnik, a professor at UC Berkeley and an invited speaker at the Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now? Workshop. In our conversation with Alison, we explore the question, “how is it that we can know so much about the world around us from so little information?,” and how her background in psychology, philosophy, and epistemology has guided her along the path to finding this answer through the actions of children. We discuss the role of causality as a means to extract representations of the world and how the “theory theory” came about, and how it was demonstrated to have merit. We also explore the complexity of causal relationships that children are able to deal with and what that can tell us about our current ML models, how the training and inference stages of the ML lifecycle are akin to childhood and adulthood, and much more! The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/548 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/twimlapplepodcast Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/twimlspotify Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR... RSS: https://twimlai.libsyn.com/rss Full episodes playlist:    • The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week i...   Subscribe to our Youtube Channel:    / @twimlai   Podcast website: https://twimlai.com Sign up for our newsletter: https://twimlai.com/newsletter Check out our blog: https://twimlai.com/blog Follow us on Twitter:   / twimlai   Follow us on Facebook:   / twimlai   Follow us on Instagram:   / twimlai