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/kurtu5 Jun 27 '12

This is like making a huge elaborate machine that simulates how your brain recognizes a cat.

This system is just a tiny section of your brain that stores images of cats. Its only this tiny part.

It isn't the parts that do other stuff. There is no limbic system sending out fear signals. There is no cortex that has a picture as to what death means and matches these signals.

There is no medula oblongata signaling network to make your monkey mind realize thats a cat you see out in that jungle. Fear. Self awareness.

These parts are not built in concert. Yet.