Deep Neural Networks And Other Approaches

Researchers are always looking for new ways to build intelligent models. We all know that really deep supervised models work great when we have sufficient data to train them, but one of the hardest things to do is to generalize well and do it efficiently. We can always go deeper, but it has a high computation cost. So as you may already be thinking, there must be another way to make machines intelligent, needing less data or at least fewer layers in our networks.

One of the most complicated tasks that machine learning researchers and engineers are currently working on is self-driving cars. This is a task where every option needs to be covered, and completely stable, to be able to deploy it on our roads. This process of training a self-driving car typically requires many training examples from real humans as well as a really deep neural network able to understand these data and reproduce the human behaviors in any situation.

Researchers from IST Austria and MIT have successfully trained a self-driving car using a new artificial intelligence system based on the brains of tiny animals, such as threadworms [1]. They achieved that with only a few neurons able to control the self-driving car, compared to the millions of neurons needed by the popular deep neural networks such as Inceptions, Resnets, or VGG. Their network was able to completely control a car using only 75 000 parameters, composed of 19 control neurons, rather than millions!

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