Giovanni Pezzulo

When moving to a new apartment, a person doesn't relearn how to open doors or turn on lights. Experience from the old home transfers automatically: a kitchen is a place with a stove and a sink, a bedroom is a place with a bed. The brain doesn't store an exact map but a flexible schema that it overlays onto unfamiliar space. Scientists have built a computer model of this transfer. It has two levels.

The modern standard approach to AI training is like a child locked in a library: he remembers millions of books but doesn't know that fire burns and falling hurts.