Hi Viviane,
Thanks a lot for the response. This is super helpful. I have some follow up questions
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From my observation and own experience, one thing that is evident to me about learning is that many a times learning happens by questioning. So, we observe something by interacting with the world and then ask questions about it and that leads to learning and knowing new things and the loop continues. How is that questioning part going to be incorporated in Monty. Will it be through Motor Policy or some other mechanism?
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After you highlighted anchoring learning in physical space, I could think of how I learnt about the abstract concept of “democracy”— So, since childhood we keep on seeing the campaigns and posters during the election time, then voting days are special in India so it grabs our attention ----> I ask question about what it is and I was told simply that it is election but still concept of democracy is not explained----> Finally when I read it in books and was taught in school, then I was able to associate it with all my prior experiences---------- Now my question is, Will Monty also need to go through such rigorous process where it is shown many such life experiences and then it will learn about the concept .
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In a child’s learning, there is always a supervisor like parents, siblings etc. Taking your example of understanding “cup on the table”---- One of the ways, child learns about this association of cup on the table is that they are told at times to keep the cup they have in their hand on the table. For a very young child, this sentence might be repeated multiple times at one instance and it would be augmented with some visual actions from the parents like “put that on the table”, “on the table” and showing with hand what on the table mean.------ My question here is that in Monty also for such learnings, we will have to have a supervisor and how do we pass multimodal inputs to monty like both verbal and visual.
Thanks,
Avinash