Lol yeah, I predict evolutionary strategies will be the next hypey thing, as the spiral of old becoming new happens again.
There are a large number of new people in ML that only entered after the deep learning hype, so have never investigated evolutionary strategies, considering them for 'old people' that didn't know what they were doing. Thus you get articles like this, young hipsters rummaging in the attic for treasure, claiming them as new discoveries. On March 24, 2017 10:40:11 PM EDT, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: >In the "Well, duhhh" department -- OpenAI finds evolution distributed >strategies outperform neural nets for reinforcement learning in test >problems, > >https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/ > >-- >Ben Goertzel, PhD >http://goertzel.org > >“Our first mothers and fathers … were endowed with intelligence; they >saw and instantly they could see far … they succeeded in knowing all >that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all >around them, and they contemplated in turn the arch of heaven and the >round face of the earth. … Great was their wisdom …. They were able to >know all.... > >But the Creator and the Maker did not hear this with pleasure. … ‘Are >they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be >gods? … What if they do not reproduce and multiply?’ > >Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes, which clouded >their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered >and they could see only what was close, only that was clear to them.” > >— Popol Vuh (holy book of the ancient Mayas) > > >------------------------------------------- >AGI >Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >RSS Feed: >https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/5037279-a88c7a6d >Modify Your Subscription: >https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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