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How Machines Really Learn

CGP Grey

CGP Grey

Education

4.9797 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

The main video is talking about a genetic breeding model of how to make machines learn.

0:05.0

This method is simpler to explain or just show.

0:09.0

Here's a machine learning to walk or play Mario or jump real high.

0:13.0

A genetic code is an older code, but it still checks out,

0:17.0

and I personally suspect in the future genetic models will have a resurgence as compute power approaches crazy pants.

0:23.0

However, the current hotness is deep learning and recursive neural networks.

0:27.3

And that's where the linear algebra really increases and explainability in a brief video really decreases.

0:33.7

But if I had to kind of explain how they work in a footnote just for the record, it's like this.

0:39.7

No infinite warehouse, just one student.

0:42.4

Teacherbot has the same test, but this time builder bot is dial adjustment bot, where

0:46.9

each dial is how sensitive one connection in the student bot's head is.

0:51.6

There's a lot of connections in its head, so a lot of dials. A lot.

0:57.0

Teacherbot shows student bot a photo and dial adjustment bot adjust that dials stronger or

1:02.0

weaker to get student bot closer to the answer. It's a bit like adjusting the dial on a radio.

1:07.6

Is that still a thing? Do cars have radios still? I don't know. Anyway, you might not know

1:12.4

the exact frequency of the station, but you can tell if you're getting closer or further away.

1:17.6

It's like that, but with 100,000 dials and a lot of math. And that's just for one test question.

1:24.9

When teacher bot introduces the next photo, dial adjustment bot needs to

1:28.6

adjust all the dial so that student bot can answer both questions. As the test gets longer,

1:34.5

this becomes an insane amount of math and fine tuning for dial adjustment bot. But when it's done,

1:41.8

there's a student bot who can do a pretty good job at recognizing new photos,

1:46.6

though still suffers from some of the problems mentioned in the main video.

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