{"id":2784,"date":"2024-03-09T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:19:47","slug":"what-ais-are-not-learning-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"What AIs are not Learning (and Why)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>Today\u2019s robots do not learn the general skills needed for services like providing home care, being nursing assistants, or doing household chores. These skills are learned by children in their first few years. Unlike people, robots and mainstream AIs do not learn by sensing, acting, doing experiments in the world, and collaborating. Creating aspirational AIs and robots for these services requires improving how they are created.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publication<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stefik, M. (2025) \u201cWhat AIs are not learning (and Why).\u201d <em>AI Magazine<\/em> 46:e12213. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/aaai.12213\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/aaai.12213<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s robots do not learn the general skills needed for services like providing home care, being nursing assistants, or doing household chores. These skills are learned by children in their first few years. Unlike people, robots and mainstream AIs do <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/?p=2784\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-developmental-ai","category-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markstefik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}