Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik

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If you want to understand the minds of babies, Alison Gopnik is your best source. The sister of New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, she specializes in cognitive psychology and language acquisition. Gopnik focuses on what babies and small children can remind adults about how to live.

Alison Gopnik's Interviews

Michael Garfield & Alison Gopnik 11 Jan 2023 • EN

Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

Humans have an unusually long childhood — and an unusually long elderhood past the age of reproductive activity. Why do we spend so much time playing and exploring, caregiving and reflecting, learning and transmitting? What were the evolutionary circumstances that led to our unique life history among the primates? What

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Alan Alda & Alison Gopnik 20 Dec 2022 • EN

Alison Gopnik: Making AI more childlike

The renowned expert on how babies learn about the world through curiosity and exploration is now collaborating with artificial intelligence researchers to make AI systems smarter by being more like children.

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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 info

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In episode eleven of The Robot Brains Podcast we are joined by Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of the "Mind and Matter" science column for the Wall Street Journal. She has written numerous books about developmental psychology and researching the ways children learn. Her TED Talk: "What

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Paul Middlebrooks & Alison Gopnik 08 Jan 2021 • EN

BI 094 Alison Gopnik: Child-Inspired AI

Alison and I discuss her work to accelerate learning and thus improve AI by studying how children learn, as Alan Turing suggested in his famous 1950 paper. The ways children learn are via imitation, by learning abstract causal models, and active learning by implementing a high exploration/exploitation ratio. We also di

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BI 094 Alison Gopnik: Child-Inspired AI

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