A Google research team has trained a network of 1,000 computers wired up like a brain to recognise cats.

The team built a neural network, which mimics the working of a biological brain, that worked out how to spot pictures of cats in just three days.

Google computer works out how to spot cats

The scary thing is I’m currently listening to The Fear Index by Robert Harris and *spoilers* it feels like the punch line might be a self-learning AI. Spooky.