A computer program is trying to learn common sense by ****ysing images 24 hours a day.
The aim is to see if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.
The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
The work is being funded by the US Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research and Google.
The team working on the project hopes that NEIL will learn relationships between different items without being taught.
Computer programs can already identify and label objects using computer vision, which models what humans can see using hardware and software, but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra ****ysis to the data.
BBC News - Computer uses images to teach itself common sense
Maybe it could be used to teach the first fact to cyclists 
The aim is to see if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.
The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
The work is being funded by the US Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research and Google.
The team working on the project hopes that NEIL will learn relationships between different items without being taught.
Computer programs can already identify and label objects using computer vision, which models what humans can see using hardware and software, but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra ****ysis to the data.
BBC News - Computer uses images to teach itself common sense
Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads and that ducks can resemble geese.
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