"Human-like Learning: The Key to Advancing AI Technology"

Researchers at Ohio State University have made progress in developing artificial intelligence (AI) that can mimic human learning through a process called "continual learning." They found that AI neural networks can suffer from "catastrophic forgetting," where they lose information from previous training as they take on new tasks. The study revealed that AI networks better retain information when trained on diverse tasks rather than similar ones. This research brings scientists closer to developing AI that exhibits lifelong, human-like learning, which could lead to faster scaling and adaptation to evolving environments. The International Conference on Machine Learning also featured work by MIT on disrupting deepfake images and Google's AI and machine learning research in various fields.