On John Urschel’s MIT Ph.D. bio, it says he’s studying spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra and machine learning.
So what’s that mean to us laymen?
“One of the big things I do is work in artificial intelligence, which is essentially teaching computers how to think for themselves,” Urschel told “The Lounge” podcast this week.
Coooooooooooooool.
“I want them to be able to learn, to be able to learn like a human learns,” Urschel continued. “A human learns from their past experiences, their examples, and they extrapolate. I want computers to be able to do that.