CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet 152
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post "Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning. In mid-July, it began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other. The goal is to recreate what we call common sense — the ability to learn things without being specifically taught."
There's no learning without teaching (Score:3, Insightful)
...the ability to learn things without being specifically taught.
I'm not sure what the specifically means here, but for one to learn something, either you actually do something and get some feedback that enables you to build a model of the world and thereby predict what might happen in similar circumstances, or you receive sensory input and have someone explain to you what the input means.
Either way, there's some kind of teaching going on.
Seek and Ye Shall Find (Score:5, Insightful)
We always find evidence to support whatever thing we are looking for, meaning, the results are always biased based on the observer and the intent of the observer. I've done this many times - when you attempt to find meaning in chaos, you find the meaning you expect to find whether it really exists or not. So the result of this will really only reveal whatever the developers were hoping to find. Hence, ultimately futile.
Re:There's no learning without teaching (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course there is learning without teaching. It's just commonly referred to by another name: science.
All jokes aside (Score:5, Insightful)
REALLY?!?
Browsing the Internet to learn COMMON SENSE? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously: did The Onion write this?
aka:
"Studying the Kardashians to understand humility" or "Studying Congress to understand bipartisan cooperation and fiscal prudence"
Shh, You Guys! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:All jokes aside (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, it's common to learn from the mistakes of others, isn't it?
Re:All jokes aside (Score:4, Insightful)
NO, it's not.
Learning from others mistakes is the ideal.
Next best is learning from your own mistakes.
What most people do, instead, is not learn from mistakes at all....