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Feb 2016
17m 20s

Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence

Ben Jaffe And Katie Malone
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Artificial intelligence includes a number of different strategies for how to make machines more intelligent, and often more human-like, in their ability to learn and solve problems. An ambitious group of researchers is working right now to classify all the approaches to AI, perhaps as a first step toward unifying these approaches and move closer to strong A ... Show More
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