Even when we can peer inside the neural network's virtual brain and examine its virtual neurons, the rules it learns for its prediction-making are usually very hard to interpret.
Learning for its own sake no longer seems to be enough.
Charlotte's Victorian morals and her love of learning for its own sake will be severely tested.
Mathematics, like literature, music, science and any other subject worth studying, should be taught and learned for its own sake.
Curiosity in its purest sense where a student's learning is entirely unrelated to examination specifications and is encouraging learning for its own sake.
Pupils are to be given responsibility for "managing their own learning" in order to make their schooling more "relevant to life in the 21st century" and encourage them to "love learning for its own sake".
That may be true for those who crave learning for its own sake, but not for those who seek the prestige and status of a top-level university degree.
Jane Robinson's charming social history is a story of widening horizons, lifelong friendships, evenings spent drinking cocoa and setting the world to rights—and, above all, the joy of learning for its own sake.
