CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post "Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning. In mid-July, it began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other. The goal is to recreate what we call common sense — the ability to learn things without being specifically taught."

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Deep Learning

[tommeke100]

That's called Deep Learning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning) and has already been done by Andrew Ng, Machine Learning professor at Stanford in co-operation with google (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/neuro-artificial-intelligence/). Indeed, it learned how to recognize cats :)

Anyway, nothing wrong with some peer research!

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[the eric conspiracy]

was the answer last time we tried something like this.