8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 7, 20268 min

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I don't think you can have AIs that perform whole jobs as competently as humans

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So I've explained elsewhere why I think actual continual learning is needed. I don't think you can have AIs that perform whole jobs as competently as humans if they are forced to just write marked-on files from session to session. Just to give an illustrative example,

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imagine if this is the way that students learn to play the saxophone. So you have one student, he's never played the saxophone before, he goes into the music hall, he tries to play it, of course this is his first time, so he fails.

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And he writes down a bunch of notes about what went wrong. And there's a next student who's waiting outside the music hall, he comes in, he reads all these notes, he's also never played, So of course he messes up and he continues to add on to these notes.

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