Neural networks can learn from their experience how to learn faster next time. When we simulate this from simple principles, several brain-like properties emerge naturally.
The brain spontaneously retrieves sets of memories in fast bursts to reason about their joint implications.
Dopamine uses a clever trick to make multifaceted predictions of the future - simultaneously predicting the worst that could happen, the best, and many possibilities in between.
Zeb Kurth-Nelson
DeepMind, UCL
zebkurthnelson@gmail.com
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