Can We Teach Machines To Think Twice?

"PonderNet tries to find a sweet spot between training prediction accuracy, computational cost, and generalisation." As humans, we think many times before speaking our thoughts out loud. But, can we expect the same from machines? Last week, Deepmind introduced PonderNet, a new algorithm that allows artificial neural networks to learn to think for a while before answering. Halting to think is something very familiar to humans.