The Other Side of the Coin: Teaching Artificial Learning Systems

The burgeoning technology of machine learning is beginning to provide some insight into the nature of learning and the role of teaching in expediting the learning process. A number of systems that learn concepts and procedures from examples have been described in the research literature. In general these require a teacher who not only has an analytical understanding of the problem domain, but also is familiar with some of the internal workings of the learning system itself. This is because the learner is performing a search in concept space which is generally quite intractable, but for the teacher's selection of guiding examples.

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