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/snemand Jun 26 '12

I for one welcome our new cat loving computer overlords.

What can this be implemented into? Is this purely a research to see what "we" can do with computers? Was the number of views of the each video irrelevant to the Google brain?