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Understanding is a crucial yet elusive concept in artificial intelligence (AI). This work proposes a framework for analyzing understanding based on the notion of composability. Given any subject (e.g., a person or an AI), we suggest…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zijian Zhang , Sara Aronowitz , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few principles (rather than an encyclopedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we could more easily both understand our own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

We discuss whether science is in the process of being transformed from a quest for causality to a quest for correlation in light of the recent development in artificial intelligence. We observe that while a blind trust in the most seductive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-06 Alex Hansen , Sauro Succi

The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sri Yash Tadimalla , Justin Cary , Gordon Hull , Jordan Register , Daniel Maxwell , David Pugalee , Tina Heafner

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved remarkable success in recent years. By subverting the need for supervised labels, such approaches are able to utilize the numerous unlabeled images that exist on the Internet and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yilun Du , Chuang Gan , Phillip Isola

A longstanding goal of artificial intelligence is to create artificial agents capable of learning to perform tasks that require sequential decision making. Importantly, while it is the artificial agent that learns and acts, it is still up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ruohan Zhang , Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping lifelong learning by introducing new possibilities for personalized, flexible, and data-informed educational practices. In the field of adult education, AI has gained particular…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Andresa Theodora , Nikolaos Tselios

In this survey we present different approaches that allow an intelligent agent to explore autonomous its environment to gather information and learn multiple tasks. Different communities proposed different solutions, that are in many cases,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Manuel Lopes , Luis Montesano

We here analyse the question of developing artificial consciousness from an evolutionary perspective, taking the evolution of the human brain and its relation with consciousness as a reference model. This kind of analysis reveals several…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-30 Michele Farisco , Kathinka Evers , Jean-Pierre Changeux

Collective behavior is widespread across the animal kingdom. To date, however, the developmental and mechanistic foundations of collective behavior have not been formally established. What learning mechanisms drive the development of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Donsuk Lee , Samantha M. W. Wood , Justin N. Wood

How can cognitive science build generalizable theories that span the full scope of natural situations and behaviors? We argue that progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers timely opportunities for cognitive science to embrace…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Wilka Carvalho , Andrew Lampinen

AI chatbots are increasingly stepping into roles as collaborators or teachers in analyzing, visualizing, and reasoning through data and domain problem. Yet, AI's default assistant mode with its comprehensive and one-off responses may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yongsu Ahn , Nam Wook Kim , Benjamin Bach

Much of the recent success of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been spurred on by impressive achievements within a broader family of machine learning methods, commonly referred to as Deep Learning (DL). This paper provides insights on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Stefano Bianchini , Moritz Müller , Pierre Pelletier

As computational systems supported by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques continue to play an increasingly pivotal role in making high-stakes recommendations and decisions across various domains, the demand for explainable AI (XAI) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Muhammad Suffian , Ulrike Kuhl , Jose M. Alonso-Moral , Alessandro Bogliolo

AI-assisted learning has seen a remarkable uptick over the last few years, mainly due to the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs). Their ability to hold long-form, natural language interactions with users makes them excellent…

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Continual learning refers to the ability of a biological or artificial system to seamlessly learn from continuous streams of information while preventing catastrophic forgetting, i.e., a condition in which new incoming information strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 German I. Parisi , Christopher Kanan

Deep learning often requires the manual collection and annotation of a training set. On robotic platforms, can we partially automate this task by training the robot to be curious, i.e., to seek out beneficial training information in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Ervin Teng , Bob Iannucci

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the practice of science. Machine learning and large language models (LLMs) can generate hypotheses at a scale and speed far exceeding traditional methods, offering the potential to accelerate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Cristina Cornelio , Takuya Ito , Ryan Cory-Wright , Sanjeeb Dash , Lior Horesh

Throughout life, we might seek a calling, companions, skills, entertainment, truth, self-knowledge, beauty, and edification. The practice of curiosity can be viewed as an extended and open-ended search for valuable information with hidden…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-05 Dale Zhou , David M. Lydon-Staley , Perry Zurn , Danielle S. Bassett

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most significant and prominent technological innovations which has reshaped all aspects of human life on the lines of ease from magnitudes like shopping, data collection, driving, everyday life, medical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Meenu Varghese , Satheesh Raj , Vigneshwaran Venkatesh