{"id":19947,"date":"2015-12-12T04:47:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/scientists-have-developed-an-algorithm-that-learns-as-fast-as-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:54","slug":"scientists-have-developed-an-algorithm-that-learns-as-fast-as-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/scientists-have-developed-an-algorithm-that-learns-as-fast-as-humans","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have developed an algorithm that learns as fast as humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-developed-an-algorithm-that-learns-as-fast-as-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Machine learning is a bit of a buzz term that describes the way artificial intelligence (AI) can begin to make sense of the world around it by being exposed to massive amount amounts of data.<\/p>\n<p>But a new algorithm developed by researchers in the US has dramatically cut down the amount of learning time required for AI to teach itself new things, with a machine capable of recognising and drawing visual symbols that are largely indistinguishable from those drawn by people.<\/p>\n<p>The research highlights how, for all our imperfections, people are actually pretty good at learning things. Whether we\u2019re learning a written character, how to operate a tool, or how to perform a dance move, humans only need a few examples before we can replicate what we\u2019ve been shown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-developed-an-algorithm-that-learns-as-quickly-as-humans\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine learning is a bit of a buzz term that describes the way artificial intelligence (AI) can begin to make sense of the world around it by being exposed to massive amount amounts of data. But a new algorithm developed by researchers in the US has dramatically cut down the amount of learning time required [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19947","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\/19947","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69032,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions\/69032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}