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Yoshua Bengio: equipping AI with higher level cognition and creativity

The Robot Brains Podcast

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G-Flonets and Variational Methods

A Gphone that learns is a generative policy that can construct a data structure. The loss function for G-flonets and meaning like probabilistic learning things like in variational methods are essentially intractable. So you can learn probabilities over any subset of quantities that you care about. They're also interesting because they allow us to learn what's called marginalization quantities, where you ignore a bunch of others.

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