{"id":79820,"date":"2017-03-15T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=79820"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:07:02","slug":"deepmind-advances-artificial-intelligence-with-memory-solving-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/deepmind-advances-artificial-intelligence-with-memory-solving-algorithm","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind Advances Artificial Intelligence with Memory-Solving Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind has solved a limitation affecting its machine learning\u2014the software&#8217;s shoddy memory\u2014in an academic breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>The Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence company published a paper this week in academic journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> that potentially paves the way for superior AI multitasking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have shown it is possible to train a neural network sequentially, which was previously thought to be a fundamental limitation,\u201d James Kirkpatrick, a DeepMind researcher who was the lead author on the paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-14\/deepmind-finds-way-to-overcome-ai-s-forgetfulness-problem\">said in an interview<\/a> with Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>A neural network, while considered the best machine learning for many tasks, has long suffered from forgetfulness, overwriting its own data to complete each new task.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is an algorithm called Elastic Weight Consolidation, according to the report, which enables a neural network to retain prior knowledge as it learns a new task.<\/p>\n<p>In a test, AI software equipped with EWC was able to learn ten different games and perform well on all. However, the AI could not master any one game as well as a single-task neural network, at least in the time it was given.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/01\/19\/transforming-canadian-city-into-ai-innovation-hub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepMind has solved a limitation affecting its machine learning\u2014the software&#8217;s shoddy memory\u2014in an academic breakthrough. The Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence company published a paper this week in academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that potentially paves the way for superior AI multitasking. \u201cWe have shown it is possible to train a neural network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":74749,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[154,246,194,153],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-79820","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-ai","tag-deepmind","tag-google","tag-machine-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79820"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=79820"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=79820"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=79820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}