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Training the Network

Written By   Eric Woodard, CISSP
December 16, 2016 Miscellaneous

NetworkTraining the Network

 

Today, if you ask the Google search engine on your desktop a question like “How big is the Milky Way,” you’ll no longer just get a list of links where you could find the answer — you’ll get the answer: “100,000 light years.”

While this question/answer tech may seem simple enough, it’s actually a complex development rooted in Google’s powerful deep neural networks. These networks are a form of artificial intelligence that aims to mimic how human brains work, relating together bits of information to comprehend data and predict patterns.

Google’s new search feature’s a deep neural network that uses sentence compression algorithms to extract relevant information from big bulks of text. Essentially, the system learned how to answer questions by repeatedly watching humans do it — more specifically, 100 PhD linguists from across the world — a process called supervised learning. After training, the system could take a large amount of data and identify the short snippet from it that answered the question at hand.

 

Self-Taught AI?

 

Training AI like this is both difficult and expensive. Google must provide massive amounts of data for their systems as well as the human experts that the neural network can learn from.

Google and other technology companies like Facebook and Elon Musk’s OpenAI are currently working on better, more automated neural networks, the kind capable of unsupervised learning. Those networks wouldn’t need people to label data before they could learn from it; they could figure it out on their own.

If these companies are successful, a multitude of opportunities would be opened for humankind. Advanced AI systems could quickly and accurately translate between languages, make our internet more secure, develop better medical treatments, and so much more.  The data that these machines could process would change our world permanently.

Tech companies are currently still years away from discovering how to create fully autonomous AI. Nevertheless, that digital voice now answering our search engine queries puts us one step closer.

 

Source: Futurism

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Eric Woodard

Eric is the owner and CEO of Protek Support and is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Business with an emphasis in Information Technology (IT). He is an IT Services expert in a variety of technology related fields. Some of these fields include document management software/hardware, enterprise level networking and VoIP phone systems, as well as large scale software implementation projects and the setup of small business networks.

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