TRAINING YOUR COMPUTER- LIKE A DOG<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nTo most of us, computer coding is an inscrutable art. Code writers are the high priests of the Information Age, a technical elite whose work is so far beyond our understanding it seems to be magic. They even speak a different language.<\/p>\n
This may be changing. With recent advances in artificial intelligence, your next computer might not need written software or OS code. Instead, you can look forward to training the machine- like a dog.<\/p>\n
Conventional programming is writing of detailed, step-by-step instructions. Any errors or omissions in the code will affect the computer\u2019s functions\u2013 and errors cannot be corrected without rewriting the code. Operating system developers, most notably Microsoft, often have to issue downloadable \u201cpatches\u201d to repair defective code. Some systems, such as Windows 8, are so bloated and error-prone that they are beyond salvage, and have to be withdrawn from the market. The coding protocol is unforgiving. \u201cGarbage in; garbage out\u201d, is an industry watchword for a reason. The computer cannot learn, and cannot correct its mistakes. It can do only what the code has taught it to do.<\/p>\n
With machine learning, your computer won\u2019t be coded with a comprehensive set of instructions. It will be trained, and you very likely will have a big hand in training it. As Edward Monaghan wrote for\u00a0Wired, <\/i>\u201cIf you want to teach a neural network to recognize a cat, you don\u2019t tell it to look for whiskers, ears, fur, and eyes. You simply show it thousands\u2026 of photos of cats, and eventually it works things out. If it keeps misclassifying foxes as cats, you don\u2019t rewrite the code. You just keep coaching it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Machine learning has been with us, in concept, for several decades. It has become practical only recently, though, with revolutionary advances in the development of neural networks, systems modeled on the complex array of neurons in the brain. Machine learning already shapes much of our online activity.\u00a0Skype Translator translates speech into different languages in real time. The collision-avoidance systems in self-driving cars are neural networks. So is the facial identification feature in Google Photos. Facebook\u2019s algorithm for adjusting user news feeds is a neural network. Even Google\u2019s world-dominating search engine, long a monument to the power of the human coder, has begun to depend heavily on machine learning. In February, Google signaled its commitment to it by replacing the veteran chief of its search engine with John Giannandrea, one of the world\u2019s leading experts in neural networks and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Giannandrea hit the ground running. He has devoted Herculean effort to training Google’s engineers in machine learning. \u201cBy building these learning systems\u201d, he said last fall, “we don\u2019t have to write these rules anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our increased reliance on neural networks will bring\u00a0radical changes in the role and status of the programmer. The code writer understood precisely how the computer functioned, since he wrote every line of its instructions. It could do nothing he hadn\u2019t told it to do. With machine learning, though, he\u2019s not entirely sure how it performs its assigned tasks. His relationship with it is no longer that of a god exercising absolute rule over his creation; it\u2019s more like the relationship between parent and child, or a dog owner and his dog. Such relationships always entail a certain amount of mystery.<\/p>\n
Your computer’s training will not end with your purchase of it. You will teach it what functions you want, how you want them carried out, even the quirks in your personality. It will get continually ‘smarter’ as it adapts to your feedback. You will be training your computer for its entire operating life.<\/p>\n
Danny Hillis, writing for The<\/i> Journal of<\/i> Design<\/i> and<\/i> Science<\/i>, said, \u201cInstead of being masters of our creations, we have learned to bargain with them, cajoling and guiding them in the general direction of our goals. We have built our own jungle- and it has a life of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Training your computer will require a reliable internet connection. Is yours adequate? If it isn’t, talk to us. We can help.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRAINING YOUR COMPUTER- LIKE A DOG To most of us, computer coding is an inscrutable art. Code writers are the high priests of the Information Age, a technical elite whose work is so far beyond our understanding it seems to be magic. They even speak a different language. This may be changing. 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