AI: Organizing Brains Into Modules Boosts New Learning Without Catastrophic Forgetting
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 15:40
in Psychology & Sociology
A new paper suggests that when brains are organized into modules they are better at learning - without having to replace old knowledge. The authors believe the findings will accelerate attempts to create artificial intelligence (AI) though they would also have value in understanding the evolution of intelligence in natural animals. Kai Olav Ellefsen of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Jean-Baptiste Mouret of Pierre&Marie Curie University and Jeff Clune of the University of Wyoming used simulations of evolving computational brain models - artificial neural networks - to show that more modular brains learn the most and forget the least. read more