{"id":420,"date":"2017-10-17T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:33:41","slug":"five-years-ago-artificial-intelligence-was-struggling-to-identify-cats-now-its-trying-to-tackle-5000-species-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/2017\/10\/17\/five-years-ago-artificial-intelligence-was-struggling-to-identify-cats-now-its-trying-to-tackle-5000-species-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tackles 5000 species"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2017\/10\/screen-shot-2017-04-10-at-2-35-40-pm.png\" alt=\"Map of the world\" width=\"369\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Google made a breakthrough: It trained its AI to recognize cats in YouTube videos. Google\u2019s neural network, software which uses statistics to approximate how the brain learns, taught itself to detect the shapes of cats and humans with more than 70% accuracy. It was a 70% improvement over any other machine learning at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/954530\/five-years-ago-ai-was-struggling-to-identify-cats-now-its-trying-to-tackle-5000-species\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five years ago, artificial intelligence was struggling to identify cats. Now it\u2019s trying to tackle 5000 species \u2014 Quartz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Google made a breakthrough: It trained its AI to recognize cats in YouTube videos. Google\u2019s neural network, software which uses statistics to approximate how the brain learns, taught itself to detect the shapes of cats and humans with more than 70% accuracy. It was a 70% improvement over any other machine learning at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/aix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}