How does AI think?
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines can be trained to solve puzzles on their own, by learning to recognise rules and patterns in data, rather than by simply following the rules humans program into them. But often, researchers don’t know what rules the AI have made for themselves.
Peter Koo, an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, US, has developed a new method – described today in
PLOS Computational Biology – that quizzes an AI to figure out what rules it has learned on its own, and whether they’re the right ones.