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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Neural Networks and Symbolic AI

I've been looking deeply into what's called probabilistic program induction. This is an idea to, if you've given some kind of abstraction problem or new situation to represent the concept as a program. It's very compute intensive and uses a lot of expensive search. Now people are looking at using neural networks to help speed up the search sort of in the way that they were used in a deeper enforcement learning with Monte Carlo search. And yeah, I'm fascinated by that. But to me, one of the problems with neural nets and this program induction approach is it's not very dynamic.

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