by cynthianews

"Remember Google’s secretive X Lab, a place where Google engineers work on futurist projects in fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics? The New York Times reports on one of those projects — a neural network built from 1,000 computers that simulates the human brain.

The “brain” was then sent to complete a task familiar to most humans: Find cat videos on YouTube. The 16,000-processor-strong neural network performed very well; it taught itself to recognize cats from some 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos. " - Mashable