Richard Sutton

But I don't know.

I think I would even say it about school.

But formal schooling is the exception.

Don't be difficult.

I mean, this is obvious.

So I don't think learning is really about training.

I think learning is about learning.

It's about an active process.

The child tries things and sees what happens.

Right.

Yeah, it does not.

We don't think about training when we think of an infant growing up.

These things are actually rather well understood.

If you go to look about how psychologists think about learning, there's nothing like imitation.

Maybe there are some extreme cases where humans might do that or appear to do that, but there is no basic animal learning process called imitation.

The basic animal learning process is for prediction and for trial and error control.

I mean, it's really interesting how sometimes the most hardest things to see are the obvious ones.

It's obvious if you just look at animals and how they learn and you look at psychology and how our theories of them, it's obvious that supervised learning is not part of the way animals learn.

We don't have examples of desired behavior.

What we have is examples of things that happened, one thing that followed another.