Probabilistic Learning Programs

An intriguing piece in the Google Research Blog. They are supporting some work in probabilistic learning programs. An important additional pointer to some of their AI directions. Most everyone would agree that learning is an important portion of any intelligence. When we were implementing enterprise AI in the late 80s, we carefully included learning modules in our knowledge templates that could build decision trees from tables of examples. That is a much simpler form of learning than Google is exploring. Links to the open cognition project. This is technical stuff, but directionally revealing.