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I thought it aged well. The problem really did become easy 5 years after it was posted
by yen223 2y ago
I thought it aged well. The problem really did become easy 5 years after it was posted
- nerdponx 2y agoAnd it did so specifically because of the hard work of professional high-caliber research backed by huge amounts of industry funding. Munroe knew exactly what he was talking about.
- whywhywhywhy 2y agoWe had decent enough image classification for this task a few years before this comic. While the sentiment is true the example in it had already been solved.
- rossdavidh 2y agoWell I saw plenty of commercial software failing at this kind of thing even a few years ago, when presented with real-world pictures. Seems to be solved now, though.
- pants2 2y agoHere's the ImageNet recognition challenge results from 2011[1]. Bird is actually one of the easier categories they they call out, but still calling it 'solved' is a bit of an exaggeration. The winning model is from Xerox Research Center Europe. 1. https://image-net.org/static_files/files/pascal_ilsvrc_2011.pptx https://image-net.org/static_files/files/pascal_ilsvrc_2011....
- a96 2y agoIt's closer to 50 years since it was first posted, though.