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- Scientists study how AI learns from people and choices.
- They study culture and helping behavior in groups.
- Adults played a simple cooking game together online.
- Players could give onions to help another player.
- One group chose to help more than the other.
- AI watched those choices and learned what matters.
- The agent trained on one group gave more help.
- The agent also gave money to people in need.
- The study comes from a university research team.
Difficult words
- scientist — A person who studies and experimentsScientists
- learn — To get knowledge or skills from experiencelearns, learned
- culture — The ideas and habits of a group
- behavior — How people act or what they do
- help — To do something for someone elsehelping
- agent — A program or person that acts
- university — A school for higher education and research
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Discussion questions
- Have you played an online game?
- Would you give something to help a friend?
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