We were recently quoted in an article in the New York Times about unsupervised machine learning and the Office of Naval Research’s program on intuition.
In addition to enhanced military training, researchers also want to use the new program to develop enhanced technology. Ezra Sidran, a computer scientist, said he planned to apply for the naval research funding to investigate “unsupervised machine learning,” in which a computer program independently “analyzes, remembers and learns.”
“When Pandora suggests a song for you or when Amazon suggests a book for you,” Mr. Sidran said, “this is an example of supervised machine learning” because “you, albeit unknowingly, are supervising the learning of the machine” with each book or song selection.
“In unsupervised machine learning,” he explained, “the program looks at all the unsorted data and – without any human intervention – clusters the data into separate categories.” After that sorting process, experts can then identify “these clusters as places an I.E.D. is likely to be hidden or places where an ambush is likely to occur.”
The complete article can be read here: U.S. Navy Program to Study How Troops Use Intuition.
Tags: AI, unsupervised machine learning