New supercomputer 'sees' well enough to drive a car someday

Navigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognise cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an astonishing feat requiring an enormous number of computations - which is just one reason that coming up with a computer-driven system that can mimic the human brain in visually recognising objects has proven so difficult...

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