Deep learning and mathematical intuition
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Deep learning can help discover mathematical relations that evade human scientists, a recent paper by researchers at DeepMind shows. Like many things coming from the Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence lab, the paper, which is titled “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI,” has received much attention from science and tech media.
Some mathematicians and computer scientists have lauded DeepMind’s efforts and the findings in the paper as breakthroughs. Others are more skeptical and believe that the use of deep learning in mathematics might have been overstated in the paper and its coverage in popular press. Deep learning is a useful tool, one scientist argues, but it does not guide human intuition, as the paper suggests, and its effectiveness might have been exaggerated due to the excitement and hype surrounding the field at the moment.
Read the full article on TechTalks.
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