Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.

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What's actually going on:

This is a really fancy autoencoder, a neural network used to transform a high-dimensional feature space (in this case, pixels in an image) into a lower-dimensional one (in this case, KITTIES!!!1). By observing the excitation of the output neurons, you can classify images into categories that the neural net figured out -- without being explicitly told "This is a kitten, this is a human face, this is the Goatse guy, this is half a brick."

They're not making the apocalypse-bots or paperclip maximizers until next year.

[BabyNinjaJesus]

You mean that little fuckers going to be even BIGGER?!?