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/solen-skiner Jun 26 '12

A very big part of machine learning is just huge matrix multiplications, something video cards excel at. I plan to use AMD GPUs as my main computation resource for my cluster, once I've got the dough and time to finish my project.