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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Learning From Multiple Tasks in a Multi-Task Network

I've studied Tesla Autopilot for a long time. It's one particular implementation of an AI system that's operating in the real world. Is there some lessons from evolutionary computation or neuro-evolution that could be applied to this kind of multi-headed beast? Yes. When you have multiple tasks, they support each other. And it turns out that you can do better in each of these tasks when you are learning simultaneously other tasks than you would by one task alone.

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