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I'll raise you one more: the system is self-learning, to the point that Google engineers themselves don't understand how it reaches the results it does.

Google engineers don't understand how their "deep learning" computer systems have gotten so good

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=292255

By Jack Clark, 15th November 2013

Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos.

This means the internet giant may need fewer experts in future as it can instead rely on its semi-autonomous, semi-smart machines to solve problems all on their own.

The claims were made at the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco on Friday by Google software engineer Quoc V. Le in a talk in which he outlined some of the ways the content-slurper is putting "deep learning" systems to work.




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