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Re:OpenAI Universe by pakl on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:47PM (#13107423)
In a sense, I would say yes there are learning laws, but it's still early in codifying them.

Along one axis, you could compare: supervised, semi-supervised, self-supervised and unsupervised learning. Along another axis, consider that there are versions of each method that take into account temporal/dynamic data, versus others that require randomly shuffled static data.

In the current problems of visual perception, I think the field would benefit greatly a shift to focus on multiscale interaction/dynamics rather than on (static) statistics as it is currently (for more on this, see my colleague's blog: [1]).

[1] Statistics and dynamics. (http://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/11/01/statistics-and-dynam...)

Re:OpenAI Universe by eli_gottlieb on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:08PM (#13109597)
>In the current problems of visual perception, I think the field would benefit greatly a shift to focus on multiscale interaction/dynamics rather than on (static) statistics as it is currently (for more on this, see my colleague's blog: [1]).

Your friend's blog has a lot of good insights that I've seen in the theoretical neuroscience and computational cognitive science literature as well. Where do you guys work?

Re:OpenAI Universe by pakl on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:52PM (#13117202)
I work at LeEco US out of San Diego, and my colleagues work at other ML/AI companies also in San Diego. We originally met and collaborated at Brain Corporation.