Brain-inspired automated visual object discovery and detection
UCLA and Stanford University engineers have demonstrated a computer system that can discover and identify the real-world objects it “sees” based on the same method of visual learning that humans use.
…The researchers drew insight into contextual learning from findings in cognitive psychology and neuroscience….
…To help the new system "learn" more like humans, the engineers decided to immerse it in an internet replica of the environment humans live in...
… It is an important step toward general artificial intelligence systems--computers that learn on their own, are intuitive, make decisions based on reasoning and interact with humans in a more human-like way…