How It Works

Human, machine and evolutionary learning

Just because we’re made out of different stuff doesn’t mean that humans learn in a different way to computers. Dr Watson’s work on expanding the theory of evolution has given him great insight into the way animals, machines and even evolution itself learns and adapts – and he has come to some quite staggering conclusions.

Can you explain how learning works?

One of the key insights of neural models of brain learning is that intelligence is not in the neurons – it’s in the organisation of the connections between them. The way that they learn is by changing the strengths of

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