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#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

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Is It Useful to Think About Meta Learning?

Is it useful to think of learning in these meta, meta, meta way? Or is it just meta learning? Well, one thing that really fascinated me about this mechanism was that it didn't require anything special. It was just if you took a system that had some form of memory the function of which could be shaped by pick your RL algorithm then this would just happen. I think there's a kind of beauty in the ability of this emergent. There's no limit on how abstract the meta learning can get. Because it's not reliant on a human engineering, a particular meta learning algorithm to get there.

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