Category: How do computers learn?

How do computers learn?

Teaching a computer to play the game Go is difficult A mathematical strategy called Objective Monte-Carlo helped a team of researchers teach a computer how to play the ancient and complex game called Go, and possibly other equally complex games.

Posted on December 23, 2021November 29, 2021 by Julian Reder 440 views

A mathematical strategy called Objective Monte-Carlo helped a team of researchers teach a computer how to play the ancient and complex game…

Smart robots could automatically identify Mars rocks New software models can help a computer train to identify rocks on Mars using a combination of Mars and Earth rock images

Posted on December 20, 2021November 29, 2021 by Genesis Berlanga 277 views

How do you train a computer to identify the type of Mars rocks it sees? #Mars #geology #machinelearning #deeplearning

How old and young people react to the Prisoner’s Dilemma The Prisoner's Dilemma is a thought experiment where two suspects are asked to betray one another in exchange for lesser sentences. Studies show that when different people of different age groups and backgrounds are presented with a Prisoner's Dilemma, they react in different ways.

Posted on December 6, 2021November 29, 2021 by Sophia Sostak 3k views

This study was the first to report on different age groups’ interactions with different people when presented with a multi-round…

Artificial intelligence can learn to play a complex war game Reinforcement learning is a type of artificial intelligence that can teach a computer to play a simple game like Backgammon. A team of scientists recently learned that it also isn’t too bad at playing the very complex war game called Battleground.

Posted on November 25, 2021November 23, 2021 by Tyler Johnson and Isaac Reibman 1k views

A team of scientists recently learned that "reinforcement learning" can be used to play a very complex war game.

Can a computer learn to play Settlers of Catan? It's not easy to teach a computer to play board games with lots of rules like Settlers of Catan. This team of scientists used an algorithm callled a Monte-Carlo Tree Search to make a skilled "artificial intelligence" Catan player that learns as it goes.

Posted on November 22, 2021November 16, 2021 by Isaac Kneubuhl 1k views

At a glance, board games may seem to have no connection to artificial intelligence (AI). However, board games are quite useful when studying…

A new method of detecting extraterrestrial life Researchers have discovered computer-led chemical analysis of a sample can provide a powerful tool for searching for extraterrestrial biochemistry without making assumptions about its nature

Posted on September 5, 2021September 2, 2021 by Matthew Ludwig 1k views

Researchers discovered computer-led chemical analysis of a sample is a powerful tool for searching for ET biochemistry without making…

Using artificial intelligence to diagnose autism in the womb After measuring certain characteristics of unborn babies and following them through the first years of life, researchers input this data into an algorithm that could be used to predict autism diagnosis in other unborn babies.

Posted on June 3, 2021November 16, 2021 by Rachel Holland 1k views

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most common developmental disorders diagnosed today. It affects an estimated 75 million people…

A new way to detect ET life using chemical profiles Rather than detecting one chemical at a time, scientists taught machine learning algorithms what different mixtures of compounds from living and non-living sources “look like” to chemical analyzers. The computer then used those fingerprints to correctly identify living and non-living samples in the lab!

Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 by Jim Cleaves 1k views

Researchers found a new way to tell the difference between the chemicals of life and the chemicals of non-life...using machine learning!

How “fast radio bursts” are used in the search for alien life Detecting fast radio bursts is difficult because the data is "noisy" so ruling out false positives is a current topic of study. A group of researchers improved detection using a computer method called a "convoluted neural network" that improved accuracy.

Posted on January 28, 2021November 16, 2021 by Rongrong Liu 207 views

Detecting fast radio bursts is difficult because the data is "noisy" so ruling out false positives is a current topic of study. A group of…

Can We Teach a Computer to Be Creative? Researchers at Apple write an algorithm that lets computers train other computers to learn patterns

Posted on October 18, 2017November 16, 2021 by Mohit Nalavadi 252 views

Creativity is no small task. We do our best to cultivate and cherish the imagination of young children, and struggle to maintain those…