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'data efficiency' -- that's a good candidate for the next buzz imo. People talk a lot about how massive amounts of data regressed over giant networks of dumb fu
by Aron 9y ago
'data efficiency' -- that's a good candidate for the next buzz imo. People talk a lot about how massive amounts of data regressed over giant networks of dumb functions happens to perform well on many tests, but they ignore the fact that the performance of the system is sick. It fails if you tweak the input by small amounts that would never confuse a human. You shouldn't NEED that much data. You need better priors. Current ML systems rely on arbitrary coincidences to succeed at multiple choice tests. I did that in courses I didn't go to class. They are primitive and childish and won't scale with pure data/processing. We are still missing something.
- strin 9y agoPrior is in some sense the fruit of data. Humans develop prior by accumulating experiences. Laws of physics are discovered through experimentation and introspection over many data points. So what we really need is a life-long learner - a machine learning algorithm that could extract knowledge from many tasks and store that in its long-term memory. The fact that we don't have an architecture for long-term memory is the main road blocker towards this goal.