On: Differentiable Neural Computers

[singham]

Exactly. I saw his webpage and was overawed until I read about him on reddit. That guy is full of himself.

[dharma1 → singham]

He has done a lot of pioneering work, to be honest. I recommend seeing him talk (or watch a video), I think his humour comes across better that way

[chriswarbo → dharma1]

It's interesting to think that Schmidhuber's actually applying machine learning methods to the field of machine learning, e.g. see the opening of http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm...

If AGI is the goal and machine learning research is the search algorithm, then Schmidhuber's attempting to perform backpropagation by pushing rewards back along the connections :)

[Senji → chriswarbo]

We should use back propagation with government.