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Azeem’s Picks: Beyond Deep Learning (with Gary Marcus)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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The Importance of Natural Selection in Machine Learning

CNN's John Defterios says machine learning is woefully incomplete. He points to a video of baby ibexes climbing a mountain, and they don't make any major mistakes. That's because nature gives their brains a rough draft in the form of natural selection that builds an ibex that can cope as soon as it's outside the womb," he says. "It's never nature versus nurture."

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