[ExI] google cousins. was: RE: online resources for identifying symbols

[Anders Sandberg]

An old but still fascinating project is 80 million tiny images: 
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/vision/TinyImages/
This is a demonstration of how much power you can get out of k-nearest 
neighbour search based on pixelwise distance, amplified by the concept 
structure of Wordnet. By now it is even fairly obsolete. They have added 
crowdsourced learning on top of it, which might move it to the next level.


-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University