Tag: reinforcement learning
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Weekly digest (29 May-04 Jun 2023)
I’ve been camping in Wales for most of the past week, so haven’t had much time for reading, writing, and posting (which is why most of the posts in the stream have been quotes from my Readwise library). Apologies for the lack of diversity. Normal programming will hopefully resume soon. It makes no sense to…
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Comment: Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in AI?
Even though there’s a lot of hype about AI and a lot of money being invested in AI, I feel like the field is headed in the wrong direction. There’s been a local maximum where there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit right now in a particular direction, which is mainly deep learning and big data.…
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The AI Threat to Democracy
With the advent of strong reinforcement learning…, goal-oriented strategic AI is now very much a reality. The difference is one of categories, not increments. While a supervised learning system relies upon the metrics fed to it by humans to come up with meaningful predictions and lacks all capacity for goal-oriented strategic thinking, reinforcement learning systems…
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DeepMind’s latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yet
“We reached a superior level of performance after training for just 72 hours with AlphaGo Zero,” he says. Only 4.9 million simulated games were needed to train Zero, compared to the original AlphaGo’s 30 million. After the three days of learning Zero was able to defeat the Lee Sedol-conquering version 100-0. After it had been…