How to teach computers to understand images

One of the most fascinating area in Artificial Intelligence is Image Recognition.
In 2007 Stanford and Princeton Universities started a big project: ImageNet

http://www.image-net.org/

They have built a very large database of labeled images.

Then, at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and Vision Lab they have developed Deep Learning models, based on Neural Networks, enabling computers to “understand images”.

This Ted talk tells you the entire story

https://www.ted.com/talks/fei_fei_li_how_we_re_teaching_computers_to_understand_pictures

Really interesting. A wonderful example of application of Machine Learning.