RESEARCH »SOINN artificial brain can now use the internet to
learn new things May 1, 2013 A group at Tokyo Institute of
Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making
further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm,
which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new
tasks. The system, which is under development as an artificial
brain for autonomous mental development robots, is currently
being used to learn about objects in photos using image searches
on the internet. It can also take aspects of other known objects
and combine them to make guesses about objects it doesn't yet
recognize.