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The Greatest Hits, and Misses, of an Image-Learning AI

Since 2013 an artificial intelligence named NEIL has been scouring the Internet to learn to recognize the subjects of images.

By Michael Franco
Feb 26, 2015 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:43 AM

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Thanks to the supercomputer that is our brain, we can make lightning-fast inferences and associations between images and situations. For a real computer, though, the same task is a bit harder. That kind of advanced visual processing requires significant artificial intelligence (AI) — the ability to perform humanlike cognitive tasks such as reasoning, generalizing and learning from past experience.

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