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Pure supervised learning is straight forward to point out in our society I think, schools and all. Let me start by saying, I misremembered and believed RL is c
by Nowado 4y ago
Pure supervised learning is straight forward to point out in our society I think, schools and all.
Let me start by saying, I misremembered and believed RL is considered supervised. Since it's actually not, that dramatically changes my position ^^
I'd argue then that most learning in humans (how strong analogy holds aside) is RL. The world is structured so that you learn to avoid pain - those who don't tend to not leave a lot of offspring behind.
Arguably that's a better metaphor for all learning than supervised/unsupervised: there is some further reward/punishment for even the school work. Misuse of muscles when learning to walk is also connected to similar feedback, so is misuse of language - be it grammatical failure or being a bad salesperson.
Generally I'd focus on pointing out that children do not learn in an unsupervised fashion in almost any setting, claiming it was supervised was wrong and based on my misclassification of RL.
- ghaff 4y agoAs you say, there are straightforward examples of supervised learning as well. "This is a cup. This is another cup." What's different from the machine vision case is you don't need to stick the kid in a Skinner box and show them 100,000 examples of cups in different shapes, sizes, orientation, lighting, etc. They'll generalize (sometimes incorrectly) a lot faster than that.