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Some may say that seeking a universal learner is the epitome of techno-hubris.
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A universal learner is a phenomenal weapon against the complexity monster.
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Nevertheless, let's use the name Alchemy to refer to our candidate universal learner for simplicity.
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A universal learner is sorely needed in many other areas, from life-and-death to mundane situations.
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And even if it takes a long time, searching for a universal learner has many immediate benefits.
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This explains why we can have a universal learner despite the "no free lunch" theorem.
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And as we'll see, our best hope of creating a universal learner lies in synthesizing ideas from different paradigms.
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But being able to learn from a single example like this is surely a key attribute of a universal learner.
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If the world were just a blooming, buzzing confusion, there would be reason to doubt the existence of a universal learner.
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And with the universal learner we'll develop in this book as the conceptual model, we can do all this without cognitive overload.
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His curiosity made him an unwearied as well as an universal learner, and whatever he saw found its way into his tables.
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Just as there are many models of computation equivalent to a Turing machine, there are probably many different equivalent formulations of a universal learner.
