How Deep Learning from Nature and Machines Matters for Our Future

For centuries, we have tried to mimic animal and plant kingdoms to produce clever engineering. Now, with the power of computing, artificial intelligence, and big data modelling, we have even more powerful opportunities to translate what nature does effortlessly into products and processes that may not be intuitively obvious to us.

Taking intelligence gathered by nature, intelligence produced by machines, and human intuition together presents us with powerful opportunities to tackle the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Subra Suresh presented some of these concepts during the fourth Villars Institute Distinguished Lecture.
Deep learning from nature and machines encapsulates how to do systems thinking; to solve complex problems you need to go beyond a single discipline but in favor of applying basic concepts from different fields.

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