Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible.

Today, computer vision systems do it with greater than 99 percent accuracy.

How?

Joseph Redmon works on the YOLO (You Only Look Once) system, an open-source method of object detection that can identify objects in images and video — from zebras to stop signs — with lightning-quick speed.

Watch this amazing live demo, where Redmon shows off this important step forward for applications like self-driving cars, robotics and even cancer detection.