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Famous Xkcd comic comes full circle with AI bird-identifying binoculars
- Conasg 3y agoI assume they had a research team and five years?
- carlmr 3y agoSounds like it took 10 years, and probably more people than one research team for that. SW developers are really bad at asking for the right amount of resources.
- GoToRO 3y agoManagers are really bad at hearing the right amount of resources.
- quickthrower2 3y agoWe just need a massive open source movement, large tech companies to via weird competitive currents kinda act like open research departments, massive increase in compute power and a lot of hype dollars and a tonne of smart people distributed across the world in different companies and universities, 5 years and a research team please, errrr… boss.
- hughesjj 3y agoTo be fair there's been a research app available for over 5 years (launched in 2014, I first used it in 2018/19) https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/the-story/ https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/the-story/ Also, from the main article, > According to Swarovski, the development of the AX Visio took approximately five years,
- harryquach 3y ago> According to Swarovski, the development of the AX Visio took approximately five years, involving around 390 "hardware parts."
- rabbits_2002 3y agoMerlin has been out for like a decade
- numpad0 3y agoPrevious discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38964575
- kordlessagain 3y agoJust buy a Vizycam: https://vizycam.com https://vizycam.com. It's less than $200.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoIs there a good example to use for something that's "virtually impossible" nowadays? comic: https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/