Right now, Facebook is training M with supervised learning, a process where
the computer learns by example from what human trainers teach it.
Not exact matches
An
example is NELL, the Never - Ending Language
Learning project from Carnegie Mellon University, a
computer system that not only reads facts
by crawling through hundreds of millions of Web pages but attempts to improve its reading and understanding competence in the process in order to perform better in the future.
«To go beyond this we use modern machine -
learning methods where you don't necessarily know how a
computer has made a decision about a particular sound, but
by training it, which means showing it lots of previous
examples, we can encourage a
computer algorithm to generalise from those.»
«
Computers that teach
by example: New
computer system enables pattern - recognition systems to convey what they
learn to humans.»
It is not only in the academic world where a student may get precious aid from online
learning; for
example, a child with a speech disability can get great help from doctors using specific
computer programs and overcome his or her
learning disability step
by step.
And that speed of change in tech, he said, is a good
example of challenges facing the traditional industry: «
By the time many publishers think a technology is important enough to warrant starting a book,» Armstrong said, «the technology has already crossed the chasm to the early majority...
By the time most
computer programming books reach a bookshelf, the most important readers... won't be interested, as they'll have already
learned everything they need from blogs.»
While on - line classes are a great supplement to
learning, classroom
examples and interaction can't be replaced
by reading a
computer screen.