dreaming

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

During the training of Boltzmann machine there are periods when the network has no clamped inputs, a phase not unlike human sleep. In 1983 papers by Hopfield, John and Francis Crick, written from entirely different perspectuves, suggested that forms of sleep/dreaming were valuable for neural networks to learn effectively.

Used in Chap. 22: page 349