Using neuroscience to create learning machines

Originally posted on The Horizons Tracker. Most AI systems these days have a learning component to them, and I've touched on the ways in which systems learn a few times previously. One of the more interesting approaches aims to mimic the way humans learn. Such approaches have their roots in a theory that was first published in 1995, which suggested that learning is a two pronged approach. The first system acquires knowledge gradually based upon our exposure to new experiences.