back to article Here's a gentle guide to building JavaScript AI in web browsers. Totally not a scary thing

Google today popped online something called Teachable Machines, a simple demo for programmers interested in deep learning. The point is, it works directly in your web browser so you can get going tinkering with an educational neural network right away without having to spin up a full machine-learning development stack and …

  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    This being Google, how much data does it send back to them?

    And if it doesn't will it continue to not send back data in future releases?

    That said, curious to see how RL facial recognition matches the stuff in the movies.

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

      Well, it's Deep Learning, so it sends everything back to them.

      The image recognition processing is not done on the PC, I'll wager.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        "The image recognition processing is not done on the PC, I'll wager."

        And certainly not in javascript in a web browser. It would probably take an hour just to process a single image.

        1. Phil Endecott

          > "The image recognition processing is not done on the PC, I'll wager."

          > And certainly not in javascript in a web browser. It would probably

          > take an hour just to process a single image.

          Wrong. This runs in the browser, using WebGL to access your GPU for hardware acceleration.

    2. Dan 55 Silver badge

      Re: This being Google, how much data does it send back to them?

      It's a good question. After all, Google Voice was only made so Google could get voice recognition samples for later services. They don't give this stuff away for free.

  2. Mystic Megabyte
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    I held up two fingers and it told me to feck off!

  3. Tom 7

    RE: Well, it's Deep Learning, so it sends everything back to them.

    well it doesnt need to - you just have to do the training yourself.

    I've just started playing with AI and deep learning and I'd recommend getting into it ASAP as if we dont find truly open alternatives to google and co we are going to be seriously disadvantaged.

    1. Mellipop

      Re: RE: Well, it's Deep Learning, so it sends everything back to them.

      It's not only easy to get into machine learning, it has been for years.

      Even the name, the teachable machine, has been around for years.

      https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Teachable-Machines-J-H-Andrae/dp/0120600501

      Purr Puss could recognise you had put up two fingers to it, too.

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