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> In the 60s, there was a rather famous project where scientists thought that solving image recognition will take them few months at most. What project was thi
by denzil_correa 8y ago
> In the 60s, there was a rather famous project where scientists thought that solving image recognition will take them few months at most.
What project was this?
- tome 8y agoProbably a reference to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision#History
- code_duck 8y agohttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks
- FabHK 8y agoI thought it might have been a reference to (LISP inventor) McCarthy's famous Dartmouth Conference in 1956, where they thought that 10 people over 2 months could make "significant advances" in making machines "use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop EDIT: Probably the Summer Vision Project, as Tome said in sibling comment. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125