Deep Learning is primitive than toddler

Deep Learning/Neural Networks are making the big impact like no other technologies. It solves some problems that were hard for the previous set of technologies like Object Classification in Photographs, Image Caption Generation, Automatic Machine Translation, etc.

I have a kid that is one and half year old and he can do some of the more complex tasks than this. Identifying persons in photographs, learning new things relating that to other things. He always amazes me. For instance, He listens to music on my Mac (I have two of them one personal and one from office). One day, I got annoyed with the constant shuffling request and shut down the Mac and said to him that it got finished. Then he pointed to the drawer and said a'top a'top. Which we didn't able to understand and he went over there and opened the drawer and pointed to the laptop. It totally amazes me.

However, this event lets me thinking that we are so proud of our progress in machine learning and it still is very primitive in nature. Some of the machine learning examples could be done by smart animals. What Deep learning lacks is Reasoning. Reasoning comes from additional data (that could be past learning). These systems are designed to do certain things (previously it was the certain thing in a certain way- that code describes). They couldn't reason Why, They couldn't see the benefit of their actions, they couldn't do any other thing, and so on. Deep learning learns on training data and that's the truth for deep learning. Even in course of action, there are some inputs that might defy the truth, deep learning can't reason out that.

My kid could identify the moods of the specific person and could behave according to that. He knows how I could calm down or how my wife reacts to his activities. He only requests for songs when I am around and most of the time from me only. He understands that if my mom got a call that's from my sister and if my wife got a call that is from my mother-in-law. He learns everyday something. And, there is the reason for that. He saw new things, he interacts with new persons/things, he observes and learns new things, and many more things. There are motivation and reasons for these activities.

And, the reason you are continuing reading this is you want to know what to do next to improve deep learning. That reason till now was very opaque and deep learning in the current state couldn't identify it. Deep Learning is just starting point for which computers intended to do, mimicking Humans in an intelligent way. If we look at following diagram from Learning Wiki, it's clear that we are at the bottom of the bottom of this pyramid.

Why we learn or retain things more from participation and doing? The answer to this lies in our brain. It's a complex and most important part of our or any living thing. From brevity point of view, we will consider only Human brain and only major parts. The functional area of brains looks like

There is also fMRI, the point here is functional part is more important for medical study than data stored in it. Data might be stored in each part of the brain however whats important is the functional part of the brain. If we look closely similar tasks got processed in common area. These areas got developed over the time for humans. If we look at EVOLUTIONARY LAYERS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN, there are 3 main components of the brain,

1. Reptilian brain controls the body's vital functions such as heart rate, breathing, body temperature and balance. It also controls the habits. Charles Duhigg in The Power of Habit talked about this area of the brain that executes habit. Habit formation is part of the process that involves other 2 components.
2. Limbic brain is the seat of the value judgments that we make, often unconsciously, that exert such a strong influence on our behavior. It can record memories of behaviors that produced agreeable and disagreeable experiences, so it is responsible for what are called emotions in human beings.
3. Neocortex has been responsible for the development of human language, abstract thought, imagination, and consciousness.

By combining these functional and evolutionary theories of Brain shows how my kid or any other kid learns. In the starting new born only learns about motoring things (Hand, legs, mouth, etc) i.e. Reptilian Brain. Then they start learning things like what is good, what is bad and emotions i.e. Limbic brain. Then they start learning new words and surprising us everyday i.e. Neocortex. It's like kids start filling out information to primitive areas first and then move to second while continuing improving on first and so on. There is no clear demarcation so every experience is unique in their own way.

The functional perspective of the brain is very important from a learning perspective. Remember the question is Why we learn or retain things more from participation and doing? The answer from the functional point of view is, we have more areas of Brain active in participation and even more in doing. We got that much more information so retrieving it back becomes easier with so many points of interaction (indexing in tech term) and hence more retention.

Now coming on to Deep Learning, If we refer to Retention of learning figure. In deep learning, we are just getting smart with Audio, Visual, Reading, etc like basic functions only that is Receiving part of the learning. For Participation and Learning by doing for computer systems still at very novice state.

Few basic things that are missing in our journey to replicate ourselves.

1. Better information handling system - the system that has shorter lookup time for recent & important things and longer lookup time (might be with questions) for less-relevant things. Deletes things that are non-relevant.
2. Functional information storage (Linkage system) - We have storage systems for information but we over looked functional perspective of the information like clicking button results in light on-off or TV on-off, Clock tells you time that relates to day-night, if working correctly, Elephant walks like that only, etc. RDF-SPARQL is such effort however not sufficient. I need to go more in-depth into GraphQL to see whether its good fit or not.
3. Protocol to have actions (functions) defined - We don't have any protocol to map visual/audio/language actions. This is required to store, link and perform actions. This might seems same as 2, however, this is more granular like data format (JSON/CSV, etc) and storage is related to that format efficient storage.

Few Applications that will come,

1. Photo object detection & identification - Already started
2. Photo Action detection & identification - This might overlap with 3
3. Photo scene description & identification
4. Video object detection, identification & tracking - Already started
5. Video Action detection & identification
6. Real time Video Scene identification & tracking -
7. Natural Language Speaker - Already started Deep Voice
8. Natural Language transcribe language neutral way
9. Natural Language understand meaning language neutral way
10. Bots communication, learning, and reasoning
11. Bots communication with humans
12. Inter-Bots communication

And much more. Possibilities are endless. These are just tip of immediate possibilities.

As you see that we will shift from receiving information to understand the meaning of that information. Some might say we already doing that but that is like we play with Car toy instead of Car and assume its Car.

We are on to the right path. It's just like we got too excited with the name Deep Learning and assumed it will able to create nasty things like us. We need to go through lot more pain and processes to make it as nasty as us.

Reference

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