A recent article on the Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines". It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences. I couldn't agree more. However, I'm not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there. … [Read more...]
Game over—computers can beat us at Space Invaders
It appears that the singularity is here. Google Deepmind have created an adaptation of the DQN algorithm---which combines Q-learning with a deep neural network---to enable a computer to beat us at 31 Atari classics (including Space Invaders). Any other task that AI could be applied to now seems so unimportant... … [Read more...]