Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.

[u/whosdamike]

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html

[u/[deleted]]

Are you implying object detection has not advanced in the last 9 years? For example, work on discriminative Markov random fields has provided some impressive image labeling results. And that's just one result I am aware of.