confirmed by A.I. : the internet is about cats

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:39 pm

http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/google ... gence.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/techn ... gewanted=1

In one of Google's A.I. experiments they used a 16,000 processor computer cluster running neural network algorithms, and they just fed it a constant stream of random thumbnails of images from the internet.
It's important to note that none of these images were labeled at all.

Eventually the AI found a pattern, which was repeatable, it could repeatably identify something when it came up in pictures. And that thing... was cats.
They didn't purposefully feed it pictures of cats, they just fed it pictures from the internet. Of course the A.I. didn't know what cats were, to it it was nothing but a describable and repeatable visual pattern.
Basically they asked a super-computer a question, the question was "the internet", and the answer was "CATS".

And this is now the creation story of my new religion.

Alter-Fox · Post by **Alter-Fox** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:21 am

I disagree. The answer is 42 but such a powerful computer would never settle for a simple number.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:27 pm

Methinks someone filtered out porn...

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:44 pm

I heard about this. very interesting

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:50 pm

Grendel wrote:Methinks someone filtered out porn...

The article said that it was fed thumbnails from youtube clips....

So I guess more correctly Youtube is about cats.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:46 pm

This just proves that cats rock!

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:04 pm

tunnelcat wrote:This just proves that cats rock!

Mine rule...

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:54 pm

ROCK AND RULE!

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:24 am

heh. just wait til they evolve opposable thumbs. humans will be doomed.

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