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Decision Machines

April 11, 2020 By editor

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.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AI, decision-making, decisions, machine learning

Game over—computers can beat us at Space Invaders

October 8, 2015 By editor

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…

Filed Under: Machine learning Tagged With: AI

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