A fun robot that can learn This computer-driven robot, designed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, can keep track of some of its previous interactions with children and incorporate them into its future responses to the children. Such machines can learn only the kinds of information that they are programmed to learn. Similarly, according to nativist philosophers, human learning is limited by the information and operating rules that are genetically programmed into the human brain.
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