Using the ImageNet object classification benchmark, Baidu’s Minwa supercomputer scanned more than 1 million images and taught itself to sort them into about 1000 categories and achieved an image identification error rate of just 4.58 percent, beating humans, Microsoft and Google. Baidu's Minwa scored 95.42%, Google's system scored a 95.2%, and Microsoft's, a 95.06%, Baidu said.
“Our company is now leading the race in computer intelligence,” said Ren Wu, a Baidu scientist working on the project. “I think this is the fastest supercomputer dedicated to deep learning,” he said. “We have great power in our hands—much greater than our competitors.
A paper released Monday [May 11, 2015] is intended to provide a taste of what Minwa’s extra oomph can do. It describes how the supercomputer was used to train a neural network that set a new record on a standard benchmark for image-recognition software. The ImageNet Classification Challenge, as it is called, involves training software on a collection of 1.5 million labeled images in 1,000 different categories, and then asking that software to use what it learned to label 100,000 images it has not seen before.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @11:33PM
0.2% of 1 million is 20,000
it only takes one crazy to fly a plane into a building
not that any sort of security theater will prevent that from happening, but no doubt the establishment stooges in washington will be making a big deal about it (behind closed doors)