It sounds like something from a science fiction
novel, a harbinger of things to come. A
computer that has been taught to learn.
Can anything good come from this?
In June, Google’s secretive X-Labs conducted an
experiment involving the networking of 16,000 ultrafast computer
processors. Then they loaded 10 billion
random images from YouTube videos and waited to see what would happen. And . . are you ready for it? The machine taught itself to recognize
cats. Which kind of makes sense when you
think about it, if it was on YouTube and it wasn’t drunk then it was probably a
cat. Jeff Dean one of the scientist
involved stated “We never told it during the training, ‘This is a cat.’ It
basically invented the concept of a cat.”
One commentator wrote, “The frightening part of
this report is that modern computers appear to be capable of independent
learning through extrapolation.” Hate to
burst their bubble but what it took 16,000 ultrafast processors and billions of
pictures to accomplish, our two year old granddaughter did last year. Because there has never been a creation as
marvellous as the one that God created on the sixth day. And that is you!
Have a
great week and remember: To see what is really possible, you will have to
attempt the impossible.
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