{"id":119052,"date":"2021-01-31T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-liquid-ai-learns-continuously-from-its-experience-of-the-world"},"modified":"2021-01-31T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:22:47","slug":"new-liquid-ai-learns-continuously-from-its-experience-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-liquid-ai-learns-continuously-from-its-experience-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Liquid\u2019 AI Learns Continuously From Its Experience of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For all its comparisons to the human brain, AI still isn\u2019t much like us. Maybe that\u2019s alright. In the animal kingdom, brains come in all shapes and sizes. So, in a new machine learning approach, engineers did away with the human brain and all its beautiful complexity\u2014turning instead to the brain of a lowly worm for inspiration.<\/p>\n

Turns out, simplicity has its benefits. The resulting neural network is efficient, transparent, and here\u2019s the kicker: It\u2019s a lifelong learner.<\/p>\n

Whereas most machine learning algorithms can\u2019t hone their skills beyond an initial training period, the researchers say the new approach, called a liquid neural network<\/a>, has a kind of built-in \u201cneuroplasticity.\u201d That is, as it goes about its work\u2014say, in the future, maybe driving a car or directing a robot\u2014it can learn from experience and adjust its connections on the fly.<\/p>\n

In a world that\u2019s noisy and chaotic, such adaptability is essential. ## **Worm-Brained Driver**<\/p>\n

The algorithm\u2019s architecture was inspired by the mere 302 neurons making up the nervous system of *C. elegans*, a tiny nematode (or worm).<\/p>\n

In work published last year<\/a>, the group, which includes researchers from MIT and Austria\u2019s Institute of Science and Technology, said that despite its simplicity, *C. elegans* is capable of surprisingly interesting and varied behavior. So, they developed equations to mathematically model the worm\u2019s neurons and then built them into a neural network.<\/p>\n

Their worm-brain algorithm was much simpler than other cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, and yet it was still able to accomplish similar tasks, like keeping a car in its lane.<\/p>\n

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For all its comparisons to the human brain, AI still isn\u2019t much like us. Maybe that\u2019s alright. In the animal kingdom, brains come in all shapes and sizes. So, in a new machine learning approach, engineers did away with the human brain and all its beautiful complexity\u2014turning instead to the brain of a lowly worm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}