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Ensembles: The Wisdom of Many Models
One model has one set of blind spots; many, averaged, cover for each other.
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Calibration: Knowing How Much to Trust a Guess
A confident wrong answer is worse than an uncertain one.
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Modularity: Minds Built From Parts
A complex system is easier to build, understand, and repair when made of parts.
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World Models: Prediction as Understanding
To understand something may be to be able to predict it.
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Common Sense: The Knowledge We Never State
The hardest knowledge to give a machine is the knowledge no one bothers to say.
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Systematic Generalization
Understanding a few combinations should confer understanding of many.
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Counterfactuals: Reasoning About What Did Not Happen
To ask what would have happened is to reason about a world that never was.
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Compositionality: Infinite Meaning From Finite Parts
From a fixed vocabulary we build endless sentences, and from known concepts endless thoughts.