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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they ca n reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artif icial intelligence (AI). A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has succee ded in modelling an artificial neural network capable of this cognitive prowess. After learning and performing a series of basic tasks, this AI was able to prov ide a linguistic description of them to a "sister" AI, which in turn performed t hem. These promising results, especially for robotics, are published in Nature N euroscience. Performing a new task without prior training, on the sole basis of verbal or wri tten instructions, is a unique human ability. What's more, once we have learned the task, we are able to describe it so that another person can reproduce it. Th is dual capacity distinguishes us from other species which, to learn a new task, need numerous trials accompanied by positive or negative reinforcement signals, without being able to communicate it to their congeners.
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