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With Talk to Books, Google Research provides an entirely new way to explore books. You make a statement or ask a question, and the tool finds sentences in books that respond, with no dependence on keyword matching. In a sense you are talking to the books, getting responses which can help you determine if you’re interested in reading them or not.  Would we be able to similarly talk to decision models? Continue reading →

This paper describes what Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook, said about “power and the limits of deep learning.” LeCun talked about three types of learning as being like parts of a cake: reinforcement learning is the cherry on top, supervised learning the icing, and predictive learning is the main part of the cake. While the current wave of AI has focused on deep learning, what’s to come is “perception,” with the biggest examples being applications such as medical imaging and self-driving cars. Though perception “really works,” what’s still missing is reasoning. Read more