Machines, Are They Smarter Than a Six-Year-Old? - Technology Org

Researchers at USC are developing an algorithm that teaches machines to learn without human supervision. "Generally speaking, machine learning is the science of teaching machines to act like humans," said Mohammad Rostami, Research Lead at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Teaching machines to learn without human supervision is the subject of his latest paper, Overcoming Concept Shift in Domain-Aware Settings through Consolidated Internal Distributions, which he will present at the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Washington, D.C. Rostami explained how machine learning is typically done: "We collect data annotated by humans, and then we teach the machine how to act similar to humans given that data. The problem is that the knowledge the machine obtains is limited to the data set used for training." Additionally, the training data set is often unavailable after the training process is complete.