/science/taxonomy/term/3145/all en /science/channels/news/cause-and-effect-approach-could-help-machines-become-better-learners-323279 <p>For human beings, the ability to generalize – to extract broad principles from our experiences of the world and use these principles to help us make decisions in new situations – is an essential skill for navigating everyday life. But for those working in the field of artificial intelligence, getting machines to generalize in this way has been a notoriously difficult challenge.</p> Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:38:11 +0000 fergus.grieve@mcgill.ca 627460 at /science