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ARCHITECTURE. "We extend the capabilities of neural networks by coupling them to external memory resources, which they can interact with by attentional processes. The combined system is analogous to a Turing Machine or Von Neumann architecture but is differentiable end-to-end, allowing it to be efficiently trained with gradient descent. Preliminary results demonstrate that Neural Turing Machines can infer simple algorithms such as copying, sorting, and associative recall from input and output examples." (Google Deepmind). https://lnkd.in/dqC_7Tc View in LinkedIn

SHORT- AND LONG-TERM. “Such mobile genetic elements shape both genome architecture and regulation. Therefore they are agents of change not only over evolutionary time but also in real time as domesticated agents.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

A FIRST DEFEAT. "In October 2015, a computer Go program called AlphaGo, powered by DeepMind, beat the European Go champion Fan Hui, a 2 dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, five to zero. This is the first time an artificial intelligence (AI) defeated a professional player." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind View in LinkedIn

MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS. “Some cut and paste, others copy and paste and both spread within the genome. They modify host genetic identities through insertion, recombination, or the epigenetic regulation of genetic content. They co-evolve with the host, interact in a modular manner and additionally generate highly adaptive immune systems for host organisms from the simplest prokaryotes (CRISPRs/Cas system) to the most complex eukaryotes (VJD-Systems).” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

SELF-TAUGHT. "The algorithms we build are capable of learning for themselves directly from raw experience or data, and are general in that they can perform well across a wide variety of tasks straight out of the box." https://deepmind.com/ View in LinkedIn

GENOMIC PARASITES. “We now recognize that DNA is not solely a genetic storage medium but is also a kind of ecological habitat. Many of such mobile genetic elements have been found within the last 40 years as inhabitants of all genomes.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES. “Several key players that organise the genetic content compositions of host organisms such as, e.g., endogenous viruses and its defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, LTRs (long terminal repeats), non-LTRs (non-long terminal repeats), LINEs (long interspersed nuclear elements), SINEs (short interspersed nuclear elements), ALUs, group I introns, group II introns, phages, plasmids.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

EXTERNAL VARIATION. “Key roles now act as non-random genetic change operators in the production of complex evolutionary inventions.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

MINOR ROLE OF MUTATION. “In contrast to the decades long assumption that the driving forces of evolution were chance mutation (statistical replication errors) and selection it is now recognised that although mutation is an empirical fact it does not contribute very much to genetic novelty.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn