It took the model a couple of hours per game to learn environment dynamic facts like “the paddle moves left to right”, “if an enemy hits you you die,” etc. The relevant comparison is not how much time it would take a human to learn to play the game, it’s how much time it would take a human to get what’s going on and what they’re supposed to aim for—and the latter is not something that it would take a human 2 hours of watching to figure out (probably more like 15-60 seconds).
I am probabably missing some important point, but the comparison to a “human” sounds unfair, because you clearly don’t mean a newborn, but rather someone who already has lots of experience with moving things left and right, or seeing things hit by something.
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it takes very little time for a human to learn a pattern like that. If a bilingual French-and-English-speaking human saw a context with two examples of translating an English sentence into French, they would ~immediately understand what was going on.
I guess this could be experimentally verified with a bilingual toddler who speaks a different language with each parent, but has never seen them talk to each other. How quickly would it grasp the concept of “translation”?
I am probabably missing some important point, but the comparison to a “human” sounds unfair, because you clearly don’t mean a newborn, but rather someone who already has lots of experience with moving things left and right, or seeing things hit by something.
Similarly...
I guess this could be experimentally verified with a bilingual toddler who speaks a different language with each parent, but has never seen them talk to each other. How quickly would it grasp the concept of “translation”?