Researchers eye artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning able to share experiences

摘要

U.S. military researchers are asking industry to devise a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI) computer programming that enables computers not only to learn from their experiences, but also to share their experiences with other computers. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued an artificial intelligence exploration opportunity (DARPA-PA-20-02-11) for the Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning (ShELL) project. ShELL seeks to advanced computer sciences in lifelong learning by computers that share experiences with each other. Lifelong learning is a relatively new area of machine learning research, in which computers continually learn as they encounter varying conditions and tasks while deployed in the field. This differs from the train-then-deploy process for typical machine learning systems, which often results in unpredictable outcomes; catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge; and the inability to execute new tasks effectively, if at all.