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First of all no one ever expected machines to beat humans at Imagenet. At least not this soon. It's an amazing accomplishment, because Imagenet is high resoluti

First of all no one ever expected machines to beat humans at Imagenet. At least not this soon. It's an amazing accomplishment, because Imagenet is high resolution pictures of many different types of objects. Which is very different than tiny photos or pictures of digits. Second the examples were produced by scraping Flickr. Then mechanical turkers were asked to confirm if the object was in the image or not. There are many images that are kind of ambigious, or contain multiple objects, so humans don't do perfectly. One researcher tried to estimate human performance, and got about 5%. Which has been beaten by computers now, by a lot.

YeGoblynQueenne 11y ago
> First of all no one ever expected machines to beat humans at Imagenet. I'm not contesting the fact that it's surprising and overall a sign of progress. I'm contesting the claim that it demonstrates "superhuman" performance. By analogy, a good student at a bad school is "superhuman" because he or she got a good mark in an exam that most other pupils _in that school_ failed. You gotta go a lot further than that before you put on the red cape.