Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner.
This study of learning in autonomous agents offers a bracing intellectual adventure. Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. Although theorists of machine learning...
Chris Thornton is Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex at Brighton, England.
Truth from Trash is representational A.I shaken but not stirred. Thorton incisively exposes the troubling gap between simple behavioral systems and systems capable of ongoing abstraction, creativity and 'disembodied reason.' Then, maginificently, he shows how to incrementally cross the divide without reinventing the standard apparatus of the symbolic tradition. Machine learning for the new millenium, with a twinkle in its eye and a sting in its tail.
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