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Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots

Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots

Update: 2021-04-19
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Melanie Mitchell, a professor of complexity at the Santa Fe Institute and a professor of computer science at Portland State University, acknowledges the powerful accomplishments of "black box" deep learning neural networks. But she also thinks that artificial intelligence research would benefit most from getting back to its roots and exchanging more ideas with research into cognition in living brains. This week, she speaks with host Steven Strogatz about the challenges of building a general intelligence, why we should think about the road rage of self-driving cars, and why AIs might need good parents. Read more at https://www.quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitchell-takes-ai-research-back-to-its-roots-20210419/.
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Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots

Melanie Mitchell Takes AI Research Back to Its Roots

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