Truth from trash how learning makes sense /

This study of learning in autonomous agents offers a bracing intellectual adventure. Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. Although theorists of machine learning tell us that...

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Main Author: Thornton, Christopher James.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2000]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Complex adaptive systems.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1.
  • Machine That Could Learn Anything
  • 2.
  • Consider Thy Neighbor
  • 3.
  • Kepler on Mars
  • 4.
  • Information Chicane
  • 5.
  • Fence-and-Fill Learning
  • 6.
  • Turing and the Submarines
  • 7.
  • Relational Gulf
  • 8.
  • Supercharged Learner
  • 9.
  • David Hume and the Crash of '87
  • 10.
  • Phases of Compression
  • 11.
  • Protorepresentational Learning
  • 12.
  • Creativity Continuum
  • References
  • Index.