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Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games — mentioned by whimsicalism

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 05:20:56 GMT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10217.pdf This is the paper I love to link in response to these sort of objections.

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Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games — mentioned by ki28iukgvdru

Fri, 22 May 2020 15:56:04 GMT

Indeed. Some work has actually been done to try to quantify how important various types of human prior knowledge are for learning video games: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10217.pdf

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Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Games — mentioned by QuadmasterXLII

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:34:13 GMT

This[1] paper does an excellent job gradually removing cultural priors from a simple videogame, and measuring the extent to which human and computer performance degrade. Their conclusion is that human ability to learn games fast depends on our ability to map them to real world concepts. Would it be permitted for entrants in your contest to pretrain on some other non-videogame task? [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10217.pdf

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