It Takes 16,000 Computer Processors to Recognize a Cat

zigzag3143 · Jun 26, 2012

The Internet community is obsessed with cats, so if you're going to build a neural network consisting of 16,000 computer processors designed to simulate the human brain, then what better task is there than to have it scour the Web for felines? Researchers from Google's X laboratory saw the logic in doing exactly that, and remarkably, the massive neural network actually taught itself to recognize the Internet's favorite type of furball with surprising accuracy.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/it_takes_16000_computer_processors_recognize_cat

JMH · Jun 26, 2012

The Internet community is obsessed with cats

They either hate 'em' or 'luv em'.
A computer would have difficulty recognizing a cat from a rat.
They have similar traits.

{She closes lid to bomb shelter.}

zigzag3143 · Jun 26, 2012

I believe the denizens of the internet to be smart rational people, hence the overwhelming popularity of Cats. The Dog minority is always whinging about "why aren't there more dogs, or more other bits" but the truth of the matter is that they used cats because getting 8 computers to recognize a dog was no challenge.

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It Takes 16,000 Computer Processors to Recognize a Cat

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