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yortsed snacilbuper

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Tue Jun 26, 2012, 10:27 PM Jun 2012

How many computers to identify a Cat? 16.000!

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Inside Google's secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Internet to learn on its own.

Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google's brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.

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How many computers to identify a Cat? 16.000! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jun 2012 OP
Great article. Thanks for posting. n/t Astrad Jun 2012 #1
Think they would be easy to spot. BlueJazz Jun 2012 #2
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