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The text discusses the philosophical and psychological debate between bottom-up learning (association and pattern detection) and top-down learning (using abstract concepts and hypotheses). It illustrates these concepts using the analogy of filtering spam emails, contrasting machine learning pattern recognition with human reasoning based on background knowledge.
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| J. S. Mill | ||
| Pavlov | ||
| B. F. Skinner | ||
| Plato | ||
| Descartes | ||
| Noam Chomsky |
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| Journal of Clinical Biology |
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"Over time, there has been a seesaw between this bottom-up approach to the mystery of learning and Plato’s alternative, top-down one."Source
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"The computer can extract the pattern of features that distinguishes the two, even if it’s quite subtle."Source
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"But by using what I already know, and thinking in an abstract way about the process that produces spam, I can figure out that this email is suspicious."Source
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