Learning Machines That Don't Forget: A New Method for Evolving Data
Imagine you’re learning to play chess. You master all the rules, strategies, and openings. You become a pretty good player. Now, someone introduces a new piece with completely new rules of movement. As you learn to play with this new piece, do you forget how to move a pawn or a knight? Of course not. Your brain can integrate new knowledge without losing what it has already acquired. Unfortunately, for many artificial intelligence systems, this is a huge challenge, known as “catastrophic forgetting”. ...