I keep my links to the NY Times to a minimum because of the paywall, but this story is worth a look. In a nutshell: a neural network composed on some 16,000 computers feed YouTube videos not only learned how to recognize cats, it created the concept 'cat' from scratch. "'We never told it during the training, 'This is a cat,' ' said Dr. Dean, who originally helped Google design the software that lets it easily break programs into many tasks that can be computed simultaneously... of memory locations to successively cull out general features after being exposed to millions of images." See also this article from CNet.
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