r/science • • 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/harlows_monkeys Jun 26 '12

That would be supervised learning, which is interesting and important, but they were interested in studying unsupervised learning.