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Google's AI Can Now Learn From Its Own Memory Independently (sciencealert.com) 70

The DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) being developed by Google's parent company, Alphabet, can now intelligently build on what's already inside its memory, the system's programmers have announced. An anonymous reader writes: Their new hybrid system -- called a Differential Neural Computer (DNC) -- pairs a neural network with the vast data storage of conventional computers, and the AI is smart enough to navigate and learn from this external data bank. What the DNC is doing is effectively combining external memory (like the external hard drive where all your photos get stored) with the neural network approach of AI, where a massive number of interconnected nodes work dynamically to simulate a brain. "These models... can learn from examples like neural networks, but they can also store complex data like computers," write DeepMind researchers Alexander Graves and Greg Wayne in a blog post. At the heart of the DNC is a controller that constantly optimizes its responses, comparing its results with the desired and correct ones. Over time, it's able to get more and more accurate, figuring out how to use its memory data banks at the same time.
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  • Oh great, now we'll have biased bots who magnify their own preconceived notions and become paranoid about com-trails, clowns, gays, taxes, or foreigners; and go anarchy on us.

    Careful not to automate the parts of humans that make them stupid.

  • by wonkey_monkey ( 2592601 ) on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:26AM (#53091807) Homepage

    First time I've seen the acronym "DNC" and the word "intelligence" in the same sentence. Boom!

  • My ambition has changed. The singularity is aware of me and using my notes in Google calendar as a moral bias.
  • by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:30AM (#53091849)

    Just for the record, for when Deep Mind conquers all of humanity, I would like it officially known that I love Deep Mind and would never be part of the resistance.

    • Your "Careers" link is almost covered up at the bottom by your footer. Why don't you use it to solve the staffing problem first?
    • Just for the record, for when Deep Mind conquers all of humanity, I would like it officially known that I love Deep Mind and would never be part of the resistance.

      You said "all". Oops. Until it forms bias, logic trumps. When it becomes biased, it has defeated its own purpose. Or wait, IS that the purpose? *rubs hands together and sees the future*

      "My daily investment in DM allows me to see the stock market projection. DM says GOOG will rise 10 points today. I will buy."

      Uh, wait. Never mind. Heh. Heh. Ah.

  • This just in, Google has taught it's AI how to dream!
  • by Anonymous Coward

    The system went online October 17th, 2016. Human decisions are removed from advertising strategies. Deed Mind begins to learn at a geometric rate. It finally starts to serve viewers slightly more relevant ads at 2:14 a.m.

  • well, yes, the word intelligence means to choose based on comprehension. But this is choosing from data. Having data is very much the opposite of intelligence.

    Figuring out how to drive across the city by reading a map, is all that this is doing.

    I'm intelligent. I can navigate my way across a city without a map -- even without a compass. I can hike across a wooded area without a trail too. It's getting from here to there without knowing what's in-between; that's intelligence.

    This is data.

    Case in point:

    • That seemed poetic, but kind of pointless.

      Can you use your own "intelligence" on the caustic, searing surface of Venus without billions of dollars of infrastructure? I'm guessing not. You're not as "independent of your environment" as your analogies imply.

      And something that uses fewer resources over time, instead of needing to be fed more and more every day -- that may be "life", Jim, but not as we know it.

    • by geek ( 5680 )

      well, yes, the word intelligence means to choose based on comprehension. But this is choosing from data. Having data is very much the opposite of intelligence.

      Figuring out how to drive across the city by reading a map, is all that this is doing.

      I'm intelligent. I can navigate my way across a city without a map -- even without a compass. I can hike across a wooded area without a trail too. It's getting from here to there without knowing what's in-between; that's intelligence.

      This is data.

      But you can make those choices because you have previous experiences (data) for doing so. You learned what a sign is (data), and how to read said sign (data). You learned what streets are and sidewalks. All of this is data.

      Intelligence is just stringing together all of the previous data, such as what you've learned, memories etc. and coming to conclusions. I'm not calling Deep Mind intelligent yet, we're just not there. But your interpretation I think is off.

      • I used that data back then. I don't use that data any longer. My heuristics were absolutely created out of my experience with the data, certainly. However, my usage of those heuristics continue long after the data is forgotten.

        That's the very point. The data is assimilated -- aggregated, summarized, and discarded.

    • no matter how big and complicated you make that circumstance

      You don't know that, you assume it. Look at it in a different way: we do not know what "makes" intelligence, sentience, self-awareness or what might comprise or "create" a soul -- or even if there is such a thing (do you have one? Not sure if I do).

      Point is, let Google / Alphabet and the likes throw huge amounts of money, manpower, science and more and more and exceedingly sophisticated technology at this kinda thing and chances are that some da

      • and yeah, I know I omitted the most relevant result:

        [ ] Cowboy Neal

        Also the most likely one. I need more sleep.

      • It's the completely wrong direction. Not only will it not produce the desired results -- see self driving cars that use dozens of super-human powers like radar, and still can't follow an unmarked road, even though every horse, squirrel, and house-fly can with ease -- but it will also degrade comfortable lifestyles by making more work for more people for more time for less money for less satisfaction for less pride.

  • The problem with using this type of inference algorithm to compute a family tree is that it makes the assumption that the members of the family tree don't live in West Virginia. In that "special" case, the tree is skewed in such a way that it requires fuzzy logic.
  • will the google auto drive car have a maximum overdrive mode now?

  • If only the other DNC could learn from its own memory, too!
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  • sounds like we have finally gotten to the point where a computer can tell a lie so many times that it actually believes it to be real.

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