Category: AI
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Learning machines. Unlearning humans. Void. Arkanoid.
"We present the first deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. The model is a convolutional neural network, trained with a variant of Q-learning, whose input is raw pixels and whose output is a value function estimating future rewards. We apply our method to seven Atari…
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Fate, Intelligence, Bombs.
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare. Initially, pilots aboard the plane directed the missile, but halfway to its destination, it severed communication with its operators. Alone, without human oversight, the missile decided…
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Self-programming software. Self-blinded humans.
DeepMind Technologies, a London-based artificial-intelligence firm acquired by Google this year, has revealed that it is designing computers that combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works. They call this hybrid device a Neural Turing Machine. The hope is it won't need programmers, and will instead program itself. (1) We…
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AI, algorithms, managers, dehumanization...
An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could. (1) We believe we are just matter. So why does it matter that a lifeless matter dictates what we do? We believe we are just flesh and bones. So…
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Robots, algorithms, learning...
MIT announced an exciting, but somewhat obscure breakthrough—a new algorithm, called AMPS, that turns teams of robots into better learners. It lets autonomous systems quickly compare notes about what they've observed in their respective travels, and come up with a combined worldview. AMPS, which is short for Approximate Merging of Posteriors for Symmetry (a reference…
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