The Soft Machine – The Cultivation of A.I.

Now, while I have been investigating this topic – I have come across a movement I did not quite anticipate. I thought that machine Learning, Neural Networks and A.I. would be mainly populated by Male Influences : hence Deus est Machina: – which it is: However I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is a growing movement amongst woman’s groups that wished to be included within the data science A.I. community. This is good: There needs to be a balance between the masculine Phallus Dei and the Feminine Way. If A.I. is to be the projection of the Male Ego – Mind made In the image of Man – then this needs to be fed, nurtured and cultivated by the Pink Evolution. It is the way. You can read the full article if you Click Here.

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  1. Artificial neural networks ( ANNs ) or connectionist systems are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. Such systems learn (progressively improve their ability) to do tasks by considering examples, generally without task-specific programming. For example, in image recognition, they might learn to identify images that contain cats by analyzing example images that have been manually labeled as “cat” or “no cat” and using the analytic results to identify cats in other images. They have found most use in applications difficult to express with a traditional computer algorithm using rule-based programming .

    1. Hi Maria thanks for your comment – I agree, Telling the difference between a cat and a dog in rule based logic tree program would be difficult (Impossible) – Does the image have four legs y/n and a tail y/n have fur, have froward pointing eyes, a round nose, whiskers, ears on top of head – is it a ‘cat’ answer yes – is it a ‘dog’ answer – yes ( How you program for ‘has fur ?’ is beyond me.) Neural Networks do not work this way – there are no program rules – only connections between neuron units. It is the ‘patterns’ of these connections that produce the result – So, there is only one logic tree – do the ‘neuron patterns’ represent cat or dog? How the patterns are constructed are simply the result of ‘repeated learning’ -and ‘learning’ is beyond ‘programming’ – Many thanks liz.

  2. Alternatively, engineers may look for other types of neural networks with more straightforward and convergent training algorithms. CMAC ( cerebellar model articulation controller ) is one such kind of neural network. It doesn’t require learning rates or randomized initial weights for CMAC. The training process can be guaranteed to converge in one step with a new batch of data, and the computational complexity of the training algorithm is linear with respect to the number of neurons involved. Since the 20, advances in both machine learning algorithms and computer hardware have led to more efficient methods for training deep neural networks that contain many layers of non-linear hidden units and a very large output layer.

    1. Hi Olga, Now you are going a little ahead of what I know so let me absorb what you are saying – so the training algorithm is linear with respect to the number of neuron units -O.K we got that and now it goes over my head – I will let Bishop do the rest [ Admin Edit ] ‘With no learning rates nor randomized initial weights – then the boundaries may not be set – So it would be difficult to see how the training process could converge in one step – AI neural nets tend to work in a linear fashion – each neural unit, tends towards a limit – that limit is set by the initial boundaries and is a contiguous function of the limit of a ( possibly infinite ) linear expansion : Which, may be only perceived as non-linear.'[ Bishop ] – right O.k. Yes, Well great yes – Many Thanks Liz..

  3. In 1994, Andre de Carvalho, together with Mike Fairhurst and David Bisset, published experimental results of a multi-layer boolean neural network, also known as a weightless neural network, composed of a 3-layers self-organising feature extraction neural network module (SOFT) followed by a multi-layer classification neural network module (GSN), which were independently trained. Each layer in the feature extraction module extracted features with growing complexity regarding the previous layer. In 1995, Brendan Frey demonstrated that it was possible to train (over two days) a network containing six fully connected layers and several hundred hidden units using the wake-sleep algorithm, co-developed with Peter Dayan and Hinton .

    1. Hi Many thanks for your comment – I’m afraid we haven’t got to Multilayer Networks in this blog yet but we are getting there. The dream wake algorithm is similar to the one Руслана – pointed out in our ‘Dreaming in Binary – Blog’. The study is by Elena Agliari et al. Where the researchers allowed a Neural Network time for learning, then allowed the network time to rest or sleep and possibly dream in order to assimilate the awakened learning phase. This too is a most Interesting article that you can all read if you Click Here. It’s on Researchgate – many thanks Liz.

  4. Classic examples include principal components analysis and cluster analysis. Feature learning algorithms, also called representation learning algorithms, often attempt to preserve the information in their input but also transform it in a way that makes it useful, often as a pre-processing step before performing classification or predictions. This technique allows reconstruction of the inputs coming from the unknown data-generating distribution, while not being necessarily faithful to configurations that are implausible under that distribution. This replaces manual feature engineering, and allows a machine to both learn the features and use them to perform a specific task. Feature learning can be either supervised or unsupervised. In supervised feature learning, features are learned using labeled input data. Examples include artificial neural networks, multilayer perceptrons, and supervised dictionary learning. In unsupervised feature learning, features are learned with unlabeled input data. Examples include dictionary learning, independent component analysis, autoencoders, matrix factorization

    1. Hi lukojl, many thanks for your comment -your comment has many layers within it – curiously enough, this is a related topic that I am currently addressing in the next section of Machine learning. In our previous examples on this site we have explored supervised learning – ergo where the ‘answers’ are already known and teaching the neural unit to produce the correct output. However there are learning methods where the outcome cannot be known – This is used mainly in Game Theory: where the outcome of a game (Like Chess) is not known – To solve this situation we need another method of learning – this we are calling Heuristic learning – Heuristics involve a situation where no out come is predictable therefore learning needs to be supported by Heuristic means. This is not the same as ‘supervised’ learning but one of ‘structured’ learning. As soon as I finish this section I will put a link to Heuristics Here. Many thanks liz…

  5. As deep learning moves from the lab into the world, research and experience shows that artificial neural networks are vulnerable to hacks and deception. By identifying patterns that these systems use to function, attackers can modify inputs to ANNs in such a way that the ANN finds a match that human observers would not recognize. For example, an attacker can make subtle changes to an image such that the ANN finds a match even though the image looks to a human nothing like the search target. Such a manipulation is termed an “adversarial attack.”

    1. Hi Cabinet – you make a very valid point, one that I am going going to address in a future post. Security services are becoming more reliant on A.I. based facial recognition in order to control anti social behavior and criminality. Even if a hacker does manipulate data – Artificial Networks are not totally reliable – they make mistakes. This has led to innocent people being accused of anti-social acts based purely on an identification brought forwards by an A.I. Machine. Unfortunately the security Services are not only becoming more reliant on these machines but appear to be believing their A.I. to be perfect – which it is not. This results in cases where citizens are having to prove their innocence beyond any doubt against an indictment based purely on the sporadic, mistaken identification from a machine. Be aware – This will only increase in the future – You can read the article here: New York Times – Many Thanks Liz.

  6. If you want to use the photo it would also be good to check with the artist beforehand in case it is subject to copyright. Best wishes. Aaren Reggis Sela

    1. Hi Aaren I assume you are referring to the Grace Hopper Picture, it came, as all the photos on the page -from Wikipedia – You can see the full permission details by Clicking Here And you will see I have provided the full Creative commons license details as best I can. Thank you for making your comment and for making sure that I am trying to keep out of trouble.

    1. Hi Cecilia I am really well. I am happy you are a regular visitor, there are many other visitors and we a trying to make the site interesting so that many people come back – thank you Liz..

  7. proved that if the width of a deep neural network with ReLU activation is strictly larger than the input dimension, then the network can approximate any Lebesgue integrable function ; If the width is smaller or equal to the input dimension, then deep neural network is not a universal approximator. as well as the optimization concepts of training and testing, related to fitting and generalization, respectively. More specifically, the probabilistic interpretation considers the activation nonlinearity as a cumulative distribution function .

    1. Hi Mirena, many thanks for your comment. I see you refer to a paper on Deep Learning by Lu et al. who proved that the width of a deep neural network, can approximate any integral function and if the width is smaller than the input then the network is not a universal approximator – this appears to set a limits on how efficiently neural networks can really function. It is an interesting paper which can be read here Hmm A bit heavy though. It does bring me closer to another topic that I am about to pursue which is about a specific limitation to A.I. which may raise a few concerns – Many Thanks Liz.

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    1. Hi ronnie, I am glad you found my site and that you are happy with it. There is lots more to come – hope you found the A.I. games interesting – see if you can beat the computer – by Clinking Here Its good fun and I personally haven’t beat the computer yet. Many thanks Liz.

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    1. Hi delta 8 thanks for your input – yes I know some of the images load slowly – that’s because I am running a small capacity server that is fast but small so, most of the images are stored off site so there will be an initial lag until the browsers cache catches up – once the cache gets the image then, next time it loads up fairly OK. I have checked the pictures and they all load OK on my browser – the slowest is the Bletchley park picture by Alex Motoc but that picture is rather large and I cant change it because it is used by permission ‘as is’. Thanks liz

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    1. Hi Lourde, many thanks for your comment I always appreciate feedback. I haven’t really thought much about changing the layout of the site as I thought it was a nice simple layout. I agree that I do tend to have a lot of text with one picture but its a bit like in a newspaper where an article describes a situation ( such as the current petrol shortage ) and the picture ( of an empty forecourt ) is only needed once to illustrate the article. However I will bear this in mind and my latest article Listed Here does have a few more pictures on it. Many thanks Liz,

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