Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition

catchblue22 writes: Using the ImageNet object classification benchmark, Baidu’s Minwa supercomputer scanned more than 1 million images and taught itself to sort them into about 1,000 categories and achieved an image identification error rate of just 4.58 percent, beating humans, Microsoft and Google. Google's system scored a 95.2% and Microsoft's, a 95.06%, Baidu said. “Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence,” said Ren Wu, a Baidu scientist working on the project. “I think this is the fastest supercomputer dedicated to deep learning,” he said. “We have great power in our hands—much greater than our competitors.”

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Just Guess

[Greyfox]

After all the news stories from the past couple of years, it seems like you could just guess "Yeah, that's a penis" and be correct about half the time. Seems like most people if you give them a camera, they're going to take a picture of a penis with it. And subsequently post that picture to the internet somewhere.

Re:Note to Slashdot Editors

[Noah Haders]

I went to see Ex Machina yesterday. I want my own Ava (but with the "stab" feature disabled).

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