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Why Facebook, Google, and the NSA Want Computers That Learn Like Humans « WORDVIRUS
Originally posted on WORDVIRUS:Deep learning could transform artificial intelligence. It could also get pretty creepy.
Illustration: Quickhoney
In June 2012, a Google supercomputer made an artificial-intelligence breakthrough:
It learned that the internet loves cats. But here’s the remarkable
part: It had never been told what a cat looks like. Researchers working
on the Google Brain project in the company’s X lab
fed 10 million random, unlabeled images from YouTube into their massive
network and instructed it to recognize the basic elements of a picture
and how they fit together. Left to their own devices, the Brain’s 16,000
central processing units noticed that a lot of the images shared
similar characteristics that it eventually recognized as a “cat.” While
the Brain’s self-taught knack for kitty spotting was nowhere as good as a
human’s, it was nonetheless a major advance in the exploding field of
deep learning.
It learned that the internet loves cats. But here’s the remarkable
part: It had never been told what a cat looks like. Researchers working
on the Google Brain project in the company’s X lab
fed 10 million random, unlabeled images from YouTube into their massive
network and instructed it to recognize the basic elements of a picture
and how they fit together. Left to their own devices, the Brain’s 16,000
central processing units noticed that a lot of the images shared
similar characteristics that it eventually recognized as a “cat.” While
the Brain’s self-taught knack for kitty spotting was nowhere as good as a
human’s, it was nonetheless a major advance in the exploding field of
deep learning.
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