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Cognitive Scientist 👩‍🔬 🧠 investigating the origins and development of abstract thought; Assistant Professor @NYUPsych and PI of @LDM_NYU
Feb 22, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
📜Paper published!📜 "Commonsense psychology in human infants and machines" in #Cognition #OpenAccess with Gala Stojnić, @gandhikanishk, @ShannonYasuda, and @LakeBrenden 👶🤖 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Human infants 👶 have a constellation of rich and flexible predictions about what motivates people’s actions, a "commonsense psychology." These predictions are typically missing from machine-learning algorithms, leading to AI 🤖 that lacks flexibility to new social situations.