Advances in artificial intelligence: deep learning
Advances in artificial intelligence: deep learning November 25, 2012 – 12:34 am If you want to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence, the New York Times has an essential article on a recent step forward called deep learning . There is a rule of thumb for following how AI is progressing: keep track of what Geoffrey Hinton is doing. Much of the current science of artificial neural networks and machine learning stems from his work or work he has done with collaborators. The New York Times piece riffs on the fact that Hinton and his team just won a competition to design software to help find molecules that are most likely to be good candidates for new drugs. Hinton’s team entered late, their software didn’t include a big detailed database of prior knowledge, and they easily won by applying deep learning methods. To understand the advance you need to know a little about how modern AI works. Most uses abstract statistical representatio...