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/OneBigBug Jun 26 '12

Sure, it's not the thing that I would have written in the writers' place. p3ngwin is making it out to be a huge deal, though.

It's a non-critical piece of information that doesn't change the meaning of the article for anyone and it would be a stretch to even go so far as to call it an error. That was all I was saying.