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Dancing with robots

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

17 September 2016

9:00 AM

Back in 2012, a team at Google built a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence network and fed it ten million randomly selected images from YouTube. The computer churned through them, and announced that it kept finding these strange things with furry faces. It had, in other words, discovered cats.

Artificial intelligence has, all of a sudden, become the next big thing again.

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