A more important question can we beat the cortex’s generic learning algorithm.
The answer today is: no. Not yet. But the evidence trend looks like we are narrowing
down on a space of algorithms that are similar to the cortex (deep belief networks,
hierarchical temporal etc etc).
Google learns about the internet by making a compressed bitwise identical digital copy of it. Machine intelligences will be able to learn that way too—and it is really not much like what goes on in brains. The way the brain makes reliable long-term memories is just a total mess.
Google learns about the internet by making a compressed bitwise identical digital copy of it.
I wouldn’t consider that learning.
Learning is building up a complex hierarchical web of statistical dimension reducing associations that allow massively efficient approximate simulation.
Google learns about the internet by making a compressed bitwise identical digital copy of it. Machine intelligences will be able to learn that way too—and it is really not much like what goes on in brains. The way the brain makes reliable long-term memories is just a total mess.
I wouldn’t consider that learning.
Learning is building up a complex hierarchical web of statistical dimension reducing associations that allow massively efficient approximate simulation.
The term is more conventionally used as follows:
knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill.
Psychology . the modification of behavior through practice, training, or experience.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/learning