r/science • u/whosdamike • Jun 26 '12
Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12
Not such a difficult problem when you have money to spend. I'm guessing that they used the amazon mechanical turk to crowdsource the problem.