Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense - Rilegato

Thornton, Christopher James

 
9780262201278: Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0262201275 ISBN 13: 9780262201278
Casa editrice: Bradford Books, 2000

Sinossi

Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner.

This study of learning in autonomous agents offers a bracing intellectual adventure. Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. Although theorists of machine learning tell us that all learning methods contribute some form of bias and thus involve a degree of creativity, Thornton carries the idea much further. He describes an incremental process, recursive relational learning, in which the results of one learning step serve as the basis for the next. Very high-level recodings are then substantially the creative artifacts of the learner's own processing. Lower-level recodings are more "objective" in that their properties are more severely constrained by the source data. Thornton sees consciousness as a process at the outer fringe of relational learning, just prior to the onset of creativity. According to this view, we cannot assume consciousness to be an exclusively human phenomenon, but rather the expected feature of any cognitive mechanism able to engage in extended flights of relational learning.

Thornton presents key background material in an entertaining manner, using extensive mental imagery and a minimum of mathematics. Anecdotes and dialogue add to the text's informality.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Chris Thornton is Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex at Brighton, England.

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Editore
Bradford Books
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0262201275
ISBN 13 
9780262201278
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
204
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780262700870: Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0262700875 ISBN 13:  9780262700870
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2002
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