Google's Neural Network Can Recognize Cats from 15 Years Ago - Apparently.
In 2002, a team of researchers at Google developed a neural network that could recognize objects in images. Using a dataset of over 1,000 images of cats from the 1990s, they trained the network to identify felines with an impressive 94% accuracy. But what's remarkable is that in 2014, Google's engineers retrained the same network on a new dataset of images from the 2000s and found that it could still recognize cats from 15 years earlier with a surprising 80% accuracy. This achievement demonstrated the remarkable resilience of deep learning algorithms.