“the scale of modeling the full human visual cortex may be within reach before the end of the decade”
presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? what millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats.
the neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which is actually no frivolous activity
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to find them, the Google research team, led by the Stanford University computer scientist Andrew Y. Ng and the Google fellow Jeff Dean, used an array of 16,000 processors to create a neural network with more than one billion connections.
