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Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?
Artifical General Intelligence

Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?

Posted on January 11, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats
Artifical General Intelligence

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats

Posted on June 29, 2020July 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

This post is a continuation of my posts on Reinforcement Learning. In my previous posts, I talked up Reinforcement Learning as if it was a…


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