The Google Brain team constructed an unsupervised neural network consisting of 1 billion connections spread across a cluster of 1,000 computers (16,000 cores). Trained for three days on 10 million random, unlabeled thumbnails pulled directly from YouTube videos, the network independently discovered the abstract concept of a “cat face” without any human input, demonstrating the immense power of deep unsupervised feature extraction.
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