Online Learning Update

June 28, 2018

A computer program that learns to “imagine” the world shows how AI can think more like us

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by Will Knight, MIT Technology Review

Machines will need to get a lot better at making sense of the world on their own if they are ever going to become truly intelligent. DeepMind, the AI-focused subsidiary of Alphabet, has taken a step in that direction by making a computer program that builds a mental picture of the world all by itself. You might say that it learns to imagine the world around it. The system, which uses what DeepMind’s researchers call a generative query network (GQN), looks at a scene from several angles and can then describe what it would look like from another angle.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611453/a-computer-program-that-learns-to-imagine-the-world-shows-how-ai-can-think-more-like-us/

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