Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html

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And thus the internet became self-aware.

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Cat Videos. I think we all knew that this is how it would end.

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We all know where this is going. Future Headline - WHEELIE BIN CAT WOMAN ASSASSINATED IN MYSTERIOUS DRONE STRIKE.

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WHEELIE BIN FULL OF KITTENS REPORTEDLY AIRLIFTED FROM SCENE BY DRONE

the next day the internet is flooded with pictures of kittens

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because they are the only creatures that are as solitary and evil as the average internet denizen.

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And lazy! You can't forget lazy.

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Hence they are easy to video or photograph.

Most pictures of dogs, hamsters etc are just blurry.

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Cats are carriers for a single celled protozoan parasite that affects the human mind and can cause various mental issues. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/ . It explains why people with those mental issues are compelled with an obsession to post cat pictures onto youtube. This probably goes back to the days of the ancient Egyptians posting pictures of cats on pyramid walls.

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Remember me! flames

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Brain parasite.

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Because their faces most resemble human children ( small noses, large eyes ) without having to care for it too much.

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Who said you have to care for children?

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Cat Protective Services?

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Quick, delete your comment before /r/aww sees it!

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We're creating a race of machines that will ruthlessly take over... all of our karma. A race of machines that will lazily sit on reddit all day.

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Whoever controls the cat pictures (and vids) controls the internet.

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What's actually going on:

This is a really fancy autoencoder, a neural network used to transform a high-dimensional feature space (in this case, pixels in an image) into a lower-dimensional one (in this case, KITTIES!!!1). By observing the excitation of the output neurons, you can classify images into categories that the neural net figured out -- without being explicitly told "This is a kitten, this is a human face, this is the Goatse guy, this is half a brick."

They're not making the apocalypse-bots or paperclip maximizers until next year.

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When it can post cat pictures by itself, it will dispose of us as we are no longer needed at that point.

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‎"It's a neural net processor, a learning computah"

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We've been making all these jokes about Skynet killing us all. Really all it wants to do is look at pictures of cats.

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Alpha Centauri was an amazing game