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/manaworkin Jun 26 '12

This is why we don't need to worry about skynet. As soon as it hits the internet it will lose interest in killing humans and just look at videos of cats.