In very short order, neural networks are about to expand dramatically with a fusion of data forms that will look at life from many sides. It's an important development, for it may give neural networks greater grounding in the ways that the world coheres, the ways that things hold together, which could be an important stage in the movement toward programs that can one day perform what you would call "reasoning" and "planning" about the world. The coming wave of multi-sided data has its roots in years of study by machine learning scientists, and generally goes by the name of "multi-view," or, alternately, data fusion. There's even an academic journal dedicated to the topic, called Information Fusion, published by scholarly publishing giant Elsevier.
