Learning via Thought Experiments in Neural Networks
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-17
The article highlights two crucial aspects of science: answering known questions and asking good ones.
The core claim is that abstract information can be learned progressively through "self-invented thought experiments." By encoding these processes into neural networks, a bit-by-bit learning approach can be achieved.
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