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Babies take a while to learn how to grasp things, it's believable that the number of attempts they make is in the 10,000s. 1 grasp attempt a minute, 8 hours a d
by samscully 10y ago
Babies take a while to learn how to grasp things, it's believable that the number of attempts they make is in the 10,000s. 1 grasp attempt a minute, 8 hours a day for 3 months is 43,000 attempts.
Of course they are learning a lot of other stuff at the same time so it's not really comparable.
- united893 10y agoWell, it's a hard problem. Looking at the data, could you come up with a way to learn control more quickly? Ie, given a series of pixel intensities, could you send commands to each motor to get them to grasp something?
- taneq 10y agoThis is something that I think people often miss when they compare machine learning to human performance. Humans spend a LOT of time in their early learning and calibrating phase. Like, it's our full time job, 365 days a year, for several years. One interaction every ~5sec, for 12 hours a day, seems a modest estimate. That's over 3 million training examples per year.
- iofj 10y agoYou also have things like horses, which are running about 30 minutes after birth at speeds about half of what they can do as adults. Before an hour is out they can jump without falling. Not sure how many training examples you can squeeze in there, but not many. Perhaps 1000 ? A horse will try to stand up less than 5 minutes after birth and will only fail to stand up 5-10 times.