From the Los Angeles Times:
Google researchers and Stanford scientists have discovered that if you show a large enough computing system millions of images from random YouTube videos for three days, the computer will teach itself to recognize ... cats.
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As the
Belfast Telegraph reported:
...Like many people looking for light amusement on the internet, the cyber
brain searched for felines completely of its own volition, something
scientists say is a major breakthrough.
In the past the machine would have been given certain reference points -
such as labelling features - to help it with its search. This time it
got no help at all...
From the Twitter
commentary on the Google X Lab feat:
@alexismadrigal
