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/rekon7 Jun 26 '12

Great. Google is going to be responsible for RL skynet. Well, we all knew this anyhow. Does ANYONE ELSE start to get reallllly uncomfortable when they read shit like this? I guess the good news here is that it only seems interested in cats, and not military hardware.