{"id":94464,"date":"2017-10-11T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=94464"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:45:39","slug":"googles-new-surprise-turns-you-into-a-rather-strange-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/googles-new-surprise-turns-you-into-a-rather-strange-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s New Teachable Machine Lets You Teach a Learning AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know<strong> how a learning machine works?<\/strong>\u00a0You can, now that Google has launched a small experiment called Teachable Machine.<\/p>\n<p>With the Teachable Machine, you\u2019ll be able to use your webcam <strong>to train a learning AI<\/strong>. You have three buttons: green, purple and orange. Press one and the machine will record everything it can see on the cam. Once you\u2019ve learned enough,\u00a0<strong>you can teach the machine<\/strong> to activate a GIF, a sound effect or some speech whenever certain things are seen through the camera.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can train the AI to say <strong>\u201cmoooo,\u201d just like a cow,<\/strong> whenever you move your hand in a certain way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LFHZtAasFXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or you could train it to <strong>blast out guitar music<\/strong> and even drums <strong>whenever you play air guitar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oP8-_0ZyY3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, it is a fun experiment that <strong>teaches the limits of machine learning<\/strong>. It needs many examples to learn, it learns through patterns, and it requires a lot of guidance. But it<strong> also shows us the huge potential<\/strong> of these machines and whets our appetite for the future of this technology in just a few years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tldr\/2017\/10\/9\/16447006\/google-teachable-machine-learning-ai-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know how a learning machine works?\u00a0You can, now that Google has launched a small experiment called Teachable Machine. With the Teachable Machine, you\u2019ll be able to use your webcam to train a learning AI. You have three buttons: green, purple and orange. Press one and the machine will record everything it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/googles-new-surprise-turns-you-into-a-rather-strange-teacher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s New Teachable Machine Lets You Teach a Learning AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":94465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-94464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328517,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94464\/revisions\/328517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94464"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=94464"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=94464"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=94464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}