AI and Neuroscience: The virtuous circle
Google DeepMind: The Podcast
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Is There Such a Thing as Episodic Memory?
The a i used something called deep reinforcement learning, but behind the scenes, it kept a memory of moves it made as it played. It could work out what sequences of moves worked well, which were mistakes, and find strategies that otherwise wouldn't have been obvious. The ability to link one memory with another is an amazing human skill. If researches can get a better understanding of how our brains actually do this, it could be replicated in a i systems giving them a much greater capacity for solving novel problems.
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