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Artificial Brain Learns to Watch Cat Videos

Google experiment may make you feel better about your online habits

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 26, 2012 6:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – It turns out our future robot overlords love watching cats on the Internet, too. Google used 16,000 computer processors to create an artificial brain, connected it to the Internet, and fed it random images from 10 million YouTube videos so it could "learn.... Read full story »

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Artificial Brain Learns to Watch Cat Videos

Google experiment may make you feel better about your online habits

artificial intelligence • Google • YouTube • online videos • brain • cats

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