The full story... AI recognises faces and cats EMILY BOURKE: The search for the perfect artificial intelligence is a tiny step closer. Scientists at Google and Stanford University have developed an artificial brain which taught itself some unexpected tricks. The computer system taught itself to recognise humans and cats. Scientists say it's a huge advance with implications for the future of searching for information on the internet. Will Ockenden reports. WILL OCKENDEN: It's no secret the internet loves anything to do with cats. Photo sharing service Flickr has enough cat pictures on its website that you could look at a new cat picture, every day for the next 25,000 years. YouTube has millions of cat videos, like this one which has more than 22,000,000 views. EXTRACT FROM YOUTUBE VIDEO: I'm sorry I'm thinking about cats again. (Very emotionally). I just, I think about how many don't have a home and ? WILL OCKENDEN: Researchers from Stanford University and Google wanted to know if it was possible for a computer system to learn on its own. They fed 10,000,000 random pictures into a giant computer system that had 16,000 processors, and let the system go for it unsupervised. It found the most common elements in those pictures: human faces, human bodies and cats. It's described as a major step forward in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. WRAY BUNTINE: It's a dramatic demonstration. WILL OCKENDEN: Wray Buntine is a researcher in machine learning from ANU (Australian National University). WRAY