Elizabeth Spelke — accepted AI-conference papers

2021

AGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning

Tianmin Shu, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Chuang Gan, Kevin Smith, Shari Liu, Dan Gutfreund +3

ICML 2021spotlight

For machine agents to successfully interact with humans in real-world settings, they will need to develop an understanding of human mental life. Intuitive psychology, the ability to reason about hidden mental variables that drive observable actions, comes naturally to people: even pre-verbal infants…

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2019

Modeling Expectation Violation in Intuitive Physics with Coarse Probabilistic Object Representations

Kevin Smith, Lingjie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu, Elizabeth Spelke, Josh Tenenbaum +1

NeurIPS 2019poster

From infancy, humans have expectations about how objects will move and interact. Even young children expect objects not to move through one another, teleport, or disappear. They are surprised by mismatches between physical expectations and perceptual observations, even in unfamiliar scenes with comp…

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