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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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How to Train a Rat to Learn a Sequence of Mechanical Steps, Like a Neural Network?

i wonder whether that's possible. I don't know the answer to it, but i think it's a fascinating question. Yes, they can't reach the abstraction of a prime number and apparently they were not trainable. But if you think about it, short cuts exist,. ecause abstraction spaces topological space. And you could create a bread crumb trail, and in theory, you could train the rats to learn a sequence of mechanical steps - just like a neural network does with maze.

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