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I really like that XKCD comic about identifying birds in a photo, so it's unfortunate that it didn't age that well. How could we rewrite that comic to today's t
by lopis 5y ago
I really like that XKCD comic about identifying birds in a photo, so it's unfortunate that it didn't age that well. How could we rewrite that comic to today's tech? I was thinking something like:
A: I want to create an app that scans good feedback of our brand online...
B: there's a li rary for that, consider it done
A: ... and understand if they are actually being sarcastic.
B: I'm gonna need 5 years and a lab of experts.
- orsenthil 5y agoWhen was that XKCD published (https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/) ? Yeah, I remember seeing for the first time, I don't remember my reaction then. But now when I see it, I am stumped!
- Darkstryder 5y agoSeptember 24th, 2014. To know the date of publication of a given xkcd comic, go to https://xkcd.com/archive/ https://xkcd.com/archive/, search for the title you're after, then the date of publication is displayed in the mouse-over text.
- elygre 5y agoSo, five years and a pandemic. Not too shabby of a prediction, that!
- paulnpace 5y agoSomewhat relevant: TornadoGuard https://xkcd.com/937/ https://xkcd.com/937/
- nerdponx 5y agoIt aged perfectly IMO. Maybe the timeline was a little bit off, but it did indeed take several years and a huge amount of effort by experts to make object recognition available "off the shelf". And even then, problems can quickly escalate from "any programmer with a little experience can do it" to "we need a team of data scientists and data engineers".
- ghaff 5y agoYeah, and even though Merlin and Google Photos (for a broader set of things) are pretty amazing, a naturalist familiar with the area will probably still blow them with the things they can recognize quickly even without having a great view.