A powerful new approach to artificial intelligence is ready to improve many Google products.
This summer Google set a new landmark in the field of artificial intelligence with software that learned how to recognize cats, people, and other things simply by watching YouTube videos (see "Self-Taught Software"). That technology, modeled on how brain cells operate, is now being put to work making Google's products smarter, with speech recognition being the first service to benefit.
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I was always taught that too much watching TV makes you stupid.
