The introduction of neural network in Google's anti-spam filters has reportedly contributed to cut 99.9% of spam on Google Mail, used by 900m people globally. In a blog post, the company said that it had been working with researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft Research for several years now to develop an automated system capable of detecting spam.
The introduction of neural network in Google's anti-spam filters has reportedly contributed to cut 99.9% of spam on Google Mail, used by 900m people globally. The new filters identify junk mail and phishing messages by analysing a large quantity of data across a a vast universe of computers and can easily adapt to changing situations.