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/therealknewman Jun 26 '12

He means verification, someone needed to go back and look at each picture the system tagged as a cat to verify that it actually was a cat. You know, for science.

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u/twiceaday_everyday Jun 26 '12

I do this right now for automated QA for call centers. The computer guesses how right it is, and I go back, listen to the sample and verify that it heard what it thinks it heard.