Probably approximately correct :
Valiant, Leslie.
Probably approximately correct : nature's algorithms for learning and prospering in a complex world / Leslie Valiant. - New York; Basic Books, 2013. - x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
Ecorithms -- Prediction and adaptation -- The computable: not everything that can be defined can be computed -- Mechanistic explanations of nature: what might we look for? -- The learnable: how can one draw general lessons from particular experiences? -- The evolvable: how can complex mechanisms evolve from simpler ones? -- The deducible: how can one reason with imprecise concepts? -- Humans as ecorithms -- Machines as ecorithms: why is artificial intelligence difficult to achieve? -- Questions.
Provides a model of how effective behavior can be learned even in a world as complex as our own, shedding new light on human nature.
9780465032716 0465032710
2012474460
Human behavior--Mathematical models.
Algorithms.
Nature--Mathematical models.
Mathematics in nature.
BF39.3 / .V35 2013
150.1
Probably approximately correct : nature's algorithms for learning and prospering in a complex world / Leslie Valiant. - New York; Basic Books, 2013. - x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
Ecorithms -- Prediction and adaptation -- The computable: not everything that can be defined can be computed -- Mechanistic explanations of nature: what might we look for? -- The learnable: how can one draw general lessons from particular experiences? -- The evolvable: how can complex mechanisms evolve from simpler ones? -- The deducible: how can one reason with imprecise concepts? -- Humans as ecorithms -- Machines as ecorithms: why is artificial intelligence difficult to achieve? -- Questions.
Provides a model of how effective behavior can be learned even in a world as complex as our own, shedding new light on human nature.
9780465032716 0465032710
2012474460
Human behavior--Mathematical models.
Algorithms.
Nature--Mathematical models.
Mathematics in nature.
BF39.3 / .V35 2013
150.1