A neural network tries to identify objects in the Star Trek intro

Heh—folks worrying about the imminent & inevitable robopocalypse might want to check this out. Kottke writes,

[T]he system hadn’t seen much space imagery before, so it didn’t do such a great job. For the red ringed planet, it guessed “HAIR SLIDE, CHOCOLATE SAUCE, WAFFLE IRON” and the Enterprise was initially “COMBINATION LOCK, ODOMETER, MAGNETIC COMPASS” before it finally made a halfway decent guess with “SUBMARINE, AIRCRAFT CARRIER, OCEAN LINER”.

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