How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
- Written by John Edward McCarthy, Professor of Mathematics, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Can you find a matching set?Cmglee/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAHumans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns, from the stars’ constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of ocean swells.
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