posted November 19, 2013 #
First and foremost, I don't really trust any news coming out of
The Register - maybe that's an incorrect mentality but it seems awfully tabloid-y to me. So, I read this article on
Google Tech Outwitting Developers with a giant grain of salt. It's mostly about how their image recognition software is learning to spot objects in a manner beyond what they were specifically programmed to do (i.e. recognizing a paper shredder that's not specifically marked as a paper shredder).
This means that for some things, Google researchers can no longer explain exactly how the system has learned to spot certain objects, because the programming appears to think independently from its creators, and its complex cognitive processes are inscrutable. This "thinking" is within an extremely narrow remit, but it is demonstrably effective and independently verifiable.
So, while I may not fully trust the actual article, the concept itself isn't outside the realm of reality. Long story short, I'm intrigued.
