Roses are red, Violets are blue...
We're all gonna die, When the moth-brain A.I. kills you !
A pair of academics have reproduced part of a moth's brain as an artificial neural network – and taught it to recognize numbers to a fairly high accuracy with just a few training examples. The software, dubbed MothNet, can apparently discern handwritten digits with 75 per cent to 85 per cent accuracy, given 15 to 20 training …
I'm failing to see how these statements are comparable:
"can apparently discern handwritten digits with 75 per cent to 85 per cent accuracy, given 15 to 20 training samples of each number."
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" That's not bad considering it takes thousands of training examples for more traditional neural networks to achieve 99 per cent accuracy."
To make a fair comparison, I'd need to see what the moth-model does after thousands of examples. Also, what does the traditional NN do after 15 to 20 training samples?
Sucks To Be Single Day
Really; I amuse my self to no end giving frantic co-workers all sorts of useless/dangerous advise when the realise that they have forgotten the most important day since Christmas, new year, mothers day etc...
The look of terror, fear & horror in their little faces is a joy to behold and brings a smile to my cold dead heart :)
Caught like a moth in a flame I've been reading up as much as possible about deep learning etc and this is the first non-beehive approach I've seen. Most stuff seems to be like a beehive - honeycomb layers connected together one after the other. If people find connecting things in different ways they may well breakdown seemingly difficult barriers with ease!