Artificial Intelligence: A Working Demonstration, and Why Big Tech Ditched Big Green
2 days ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
The real reason Silicon Valley silent quit on the Democrats, and quietly backed President Trump’s America first energy policies.
Let’s dive straight in. What you are seeing below is (hopefully) a real neural network running in your web browser. The neural network wants to learn how to drive.
An explanation. Modern artificial neural networks usually start by generating a set of random neural networks.
As you can imagine, a randomly generated neural network is unlikely to be a good solution to the problem. But by chance, some of the randomly generated networks will be slightly less awful than their siblings.
Those slightly less awful neural networks are used as a guide to creating the next generation population of neural networks. The actual method of extracting the goodness from the previous generation differs, but it can involve backpropagation (mathematical optimisation for expected results), genetic algorithms (“breeding” the best networks like you would breed cattle, in the hope the child networks will inherit the best from both parents), and mutation – photocopying a parent neural network but randomly changing a few parameters to see if those random changes result in a better neural network.
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