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AI and Neuroscience: The virtuous circle

Google DeepMind: The Podcast

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Train Dogs to Sit

In an ideal world, engineers would like to reach a point where a i can learn in a similar way to humans. With artificial systems, all they really care about is ones and zeros. So you can construct artificial reward mechanisms for almost anything. We've now moved away from programming the system solution,. so it learns for itself, to now progaming up a meta level. The idea of unsupervised learning - how do you learn things if in the absence of any reward? In the real world, as humans, or even as children, there aren't very many rewards. Even as a dog, right? The dog gets a doggy biscuit every now and again, but it

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