Google Simulates Human Brain in Search for Cat Videos

Remember Google's secretive X Lab, a place where Google engineers work on futurist projects in fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics? The New York Times reports on one of those projects -- a neural network built from 1,000 computers that simulates the human brain.

The "brain" was then sent to complete a task familiar to most humans: Find cat videos on YouTube. The 16,000-processor-strong neural network performed very well; it taught itself to recognize cats from some 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos.

What's amazing about this research is how little help the "brain" was given in order to identify the cat.

We never told it during the training, T…
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