Lol, I doubt they will make any progress. Institutional learning doesn't teach you how to think outside the box.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Ted <[email protected]> wrote: > More details, Mark Zucklberg personally called Yann LeCun on the phone to > be the director of AI research. > > Here's an abstract from one of his latest papers: > > *Learning Hierarchical Features for Scene Labeling*, scheduled to appear > in the special issue on deep learning of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis > and Machine Intelligence. The task is to label all the pixels in an image > with the category of the object it belongs to. This is sometimes called > scene labeling, scene parsing, or semantic segmentation. The bottom line is > that our system beat all previously published scene labeling systems on > accuracy on three standard datasets: Stanford Bakground (8 classes), > SIFTflow (33 classes) and Barcelona (170 classes). It also beat the best > competitors by a factor of 100 in speed. Our system is a multiscale > convolutional network trained in purely supervised mode (with backprop) to > label each pixel. The decisions are then cleaned up by a simple > post-processing (the simplest one consisting in taking the majority > category within a superpixel). > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:02:12 AM UTC-6, Ted wrote: >> >> Sounds like the same for deep learning, heard this on NRP radio while >> driving home yesterday: >> >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/20/ >> 280232074/deep-learning-teaching-computers-to-tell-things-apart >> >> On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:22:11 PM UTC-6, BenGoertzel wrote: >>> >>> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524401/yahoo- >>> launches-10-million-research-effort-to-invent-a-smarter-siri/#comments >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ben Goertzel, PhD >>> http://goertzel.org >>> >>> "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. >>> James T. Kirk >>> >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
