April 2016
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463 pages
18h 53m
English
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Big Data and the SP Theory of Intelligence
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6.4 Learning and Discovery
While traditional computers must be programmed by humans to perform specific
tasks, cognitive systems will learn from their interactions with data and humans
and be able to, in a sense, program themselves to perform new tasks. [9, p. 7]
In broad terms, unsupervised learning in the SP system means lossless compression of a body
of information, I, via the matching and unification of patterns (Section 6.4.1).
The SP computer model (SP70, [17, Chapter 9; 20, Section 5]) has already demonstrated an
ability to discover generative grammars from unsegmented samples of English-like artificial ...