Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense (Complex Adaptive Systems) - Hardcover

Thornton, Christopher J.

 
9780262201278: Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense (Complex Adaptive Systems)
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ISBN 10: 0262201275 ISBN 13: 9780262201278
Verlag: MIT PR, 2000

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
MIT PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262201275
ISBN 13 
9780262201278
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