Building A Computer Program That Can Teach Itself Everything, Video b4in.org/q4dH While science fiction movies – especially those that predict an apocalyptic future where the machines have taken over – have portrayed computers that can learn and teach about everything as a dangerous tool, researchers at the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle suggest they could help people sift through volumes of information online and access everything there is about a specific topic. “It is all about discovering associations between textual and visual data,” Ali Farhadi, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering, said in a statement. “The program learns to tightly couple rich sets of phrases with pixels in images. This means that it can recognize instances of specific concepts when it sees them.” Farhadi and his fellow researchers have created the first fully automated computer program that can teach just about everything there is to know about any visual concept. Dubbed ‘Learning Everything about Anything’, or LEVAN, the program is able to search through millions of books and images on the web, and from this it can “learn” all of the possible variations of a concept. It can further display the results to users as a comprehensive, browsable list of images, helping them explore and understand topics quickly in great detail, according to the team. More b4in.org/q4dH
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:25:57 +0000
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