Baidu AI achieves 'zero shot learning' ability using natural language - ExtremeTech

Baidu has been something of a dark horse where AI breakthroughs are concerned; the company's pronouncements always seeming to fall short of the shockwaves sent out by DeepMind, Facebook, and IBM. Nevertheless, this recent achievement could have some important consequences. It helps to differentiate the Baidu AI language use from anything you've encountered with Siri or Google Assistant. In the Baidu project, a virtual teacher gave positive or negative feedback to an agent who was responding to commands issued by the teacher. If the agent rightly connected the command with the intended action, it received a reward, and in the case of failure, it was penalized.