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Aspen Ideas Festival

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our

Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates.

07/01/2017

Aspen Ideas Festival

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our

Season 2 Episode 139 | 48m 26s

Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates.

Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates. Almost overnight, machines have acquired abilities that computer scientists have been spending decades to develop. How did a small group of brainy pioneers crack the machine-learning code? By designing machines that work like brains, of course.

07/01/2017

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Aspen Ideas Festival

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our

Season 2 Episode 139 | 48m 26s

Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates. Almost overnight, machines have acquired abilities that computer scientists have been spending decades to develop. How did a small group of brainy pioneers crack the machine-learning code? By designing machines that work like brains, of course.

07/01/2017

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