Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work 95
holy_calamity writes "A machine learning breakthrough from Google researchers that grabbed headlines this summer is now being put to work improving the company's products. The company revealed in June that it had built neural networks that run on 16,000 processors simultaneously, enough power that they could learn to recognize cats just by watching YouTube. Those neural nets have now made Google's speech recognition for U.S. English 25 percent better, and are set to be used in other products, such as image search."
Product name "Google Matrix" or "Google Skynet" ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sucks to be siri (Score:3, Funny)
Please move back into the reality distortion field.
Re:Face recognition (Score:5, Funny)
How long until Google starts using this for face recognition?
That totally does not bother me. These methods are easily defeated by Burqa technology, invented by Muslims ages ago.
Re:Sucks to be siri (Score:3, Funny)
I've often wondered how "sucks" got to mean something bad.
90% accuracy (Score:5, Funny)
In today's news, google announced that a new algorithm has achieved a 90% success rate in identifying video's containing cats on youtube. The algo shouts "cats" every time a video is started, and since 90% of youtube video's contain cats, the algorithm has obtained a success rate of 9 in 10.
Re:Face recognition (Score:3, Funny)