In the spring of 2010, I was privileged to have a conversation with Simon Schaffer, who pointed me to the work of a sociologist and philosopher of science named Harry Collins. This year, I discovered and read Collins' new book, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, and a somewhat older book, The Shape of Actions (co-authored with…
Humans excel at solving a wide variety of challenging problems, from low-level motor control through to high-level cognitive tasks. Our goal at DeepMind is to create artificial agents that can achieve a similar level of performance and generality. Like a human, our agents learn for themselves to achieve successful strategies that lead to the greatest long-term rewards.
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"Networking" and "connecting" as most people attempt it is a waste of time. [1] As most people with large networks know, focusing on helping others is the best strategy. The more people who ask you for help, the more connected you actually are, and the more able you will be to use your network to…
An objective function is a measure of how similar a prediction of a value and the actual value are. Usually, we are looking to find the set of parameters that lead to the smallest possible cost which would imply that your algorithm will perform well.
Part I: Intuition (you are reading it now) Part II: How Capsules Work Part III: Dynamic Routing Between Capsules Part IV: CapsNet Architecture (coming soon) Quick announcement about our new…
I have been working on Reinforcement Learning for the past few months and all I can say about it: It is different. A writeup of the common quirks and frustrations of Reinforcement Learning I have…
Geoffrey Hinton has finally expressed what many have been uneasy about. In a recent AI conference, Hinton remarked that he was “deeply suspicious” of back-propagation, and said “My view is throw it…
The mathematical concept of a "scheme" seems to pop up everywhere, but it's hard to get a good grasp on what a scheme actually is. Any time you might ask someone what a scheme is in passing, there never seems to be enough time to explain it. On the other hand, if someone finds the time to internaliz