And What You Can

Take from Each

Pedro Domingos
University of Washington
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Evolution Experience

Culture
Evolution Experience

Culture Computers
Most of the knowledge in the world in the
future is going to be extracted by machines
and will reside in machines.

Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research, Facebook

1. Fill in gaps in existing knowledge
2. Emulate the brain
3. Simulate evolution
4. Systematically reduce uncertainty
5. Notice similarities between old and new
Tribe Origins Master Algorithm
Symbolists Logic, philosophy Inverse deduction
Connectionists Neuroscience Backpropagation
Evolutionaries Evolutionary biology Genetic programming
Bayesians Statistics Probabilistic inference
Analogizers Psychology Kernel machines
Tom Mitchell Steve Muggleton Ross Quinlan
Addition Subtraction

2 2
+ 2 + ?



= ? = 4
 Deduction Induction

Socrates is human Socrates is human

+ Humans are mortal . + ?

= ? = Socrates is mortal
Yann LeCun Geoff Hinton Yoshua Bengio
John Koza Hod Lipson
John Holland
David Heckerman Judea Pearl Michael Jordan
Peter Hart Vladimir Vapnik Douglas Hofstadter
Tribe Problem Solution
Symbolists Knowledge composition Inverse deduction
Connectionists Credit assignment Backpropagation
Evolutionaries Structure discovery Genetic programming
Bayesians Uncertainty Probabilistic inference
Analogizers Similarity Kernel machines
Tribe Problem Solution
Symbolists Knowledge composition Inverse deduction
Connectionists Credit assignment Backpropagation
Evolutionaries Structure discovery Genetic programming
Bayesians Uncertainty Probabilistic inference
Analogizers Similarity Kernel machines

But what we really need is

a single algorithm that solves all five!
Representation
Probabilistic logic (e.g., Markov logic networks)
Weighted formulas Distribution over states
Evaluation
Posterior probability
User-defined objective function
Optimization
Formula discovery: Genetic programming
Weight learning: Backpropagation
Much remains to be done . . .
We need your ideas
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