AI Evolves to Reason Like Humans, Scientists Say

Scientists say that AI has evolved to reason like humans

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Theory of Mind (ToM) is the ability of the human mind to attribute mental states to others and is a key component of human cognition

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ToM is a prerequisite for artificial intelligence (AI) to be integrated into society, for example in healthcare

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ToM refers to humans' ability to represent the mental states of others, including their desires, beliefs, and intentions

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Researchers have proposed to train a machine to build such models too, designing a Theory of Mind neural network - a ToMnet - which uses meta-examples to learn to predict the behavior of other agents

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A ToMnet learns a general theory of mind that is specialized for the distribution of agents it encounters in the world and estimates an agent-specific theory of mind online for each individual agent

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There is a large body of work on testing common sense and reasoning in AI systems, including observing and predicting agent behavior

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The socially savvy AIs that seem to possess theory of mind are not a pipe dream

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If we want robots or AI in general to integrate into our lives in a seamless way, then we have to figure out how to give them the gift of understanding human intentions

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