What counts as artificially intelligent? AI and deep learning, explained

And then, at the very top layer you have detectors that can tell you whether you're looking at a person or a dog or a sailplane or whatever it is." Next, let's imagine that we want to teach a computer what a cat looks like using deep learning. First, we'd take a neural network and program different layers to identify different elements of a cat: claws, paws, whiskers, etc. (Each layer would itself be built on layers that allow it to recognize that particular element, but that's why this is called deep learning.) Then, the network is shown a lot of images of cats and other animals and told which is which. "This is a cat," we tell the computer, showing it a picture of a cat. "This is also a cat.