Richard Sutton

And we have examples of we did something and there were consequences.

But there are no examples of supervised learning.

Supervised learning is not something that happens in nature.

And, you know...

School, even if that was the case, we should forget about it because that's some special thing that happens in people.

It doesn't happen broadly in nature.

Squirrels don't go to school.

Squirrels can learn all about the world.

It's absolutely obvious, I would say, that supervised learning doesn't happen in animals.

Why are you trying to distinguish humans?

Humans are animals.

What we have in common is more interesting.

What we have, what distinguishes us, we should be paying less attention to.

So I like the way you consider that obvious because I consider the opposite obvious.

Yeah, I think we have to understand how we are animals.

And if we understood a squirrel, I think we'd be almost all the way there.

It's understanding human intelligence.

The language part is just a small veneer on the surface.

Okay, so this is great.

You know, we're finding out the very different ways that we're thinking.