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Many people, including Geoffrey Hinton, have raised concerns about the back-propagation algorithm and the fact that it’s likely not a promising way to achieve Artificial Intelligence (see this Axios blog post).
Alternative mechanisms for learning have been and are currently studied to try and approach the learning problem in a more effective way.
Direct feedback alignment
Hebbian learning
The theory is sometimes summarized as “Cells that fire together wire together.”.
Bibliography
Nøkland, Arild. 2016. “Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks.” arXiv:1609.01596 [Cs, Stat], December.