In my opinion a lot of commenters are focusing on current LLM and computer vision capabilities, but missing the point of that particular xkcd. It wasn't "compu

In my opinion a lot of commenters are focusing on current LLM and computer vision capabilities, but missing the point of that particular xkcd. It wasn't "computer vision is really hard!". The point was: for laypeople, it's hard to understand why a particular problem is hard or easy for computers. Some things that seem hard are actually easy (people in comments here mention "standing on the shoulders of giants", but I find that's also missing the point) and some things that seem easy are hard. And it's sometimes difficult to explain to laypeople why something can be done in a couple of hours while other tasks would require a 5-year long research project, when to the external observer both tasks are roughly equally complex. Really, that's it. That's the point of the joke/observation. It wasn't truly an observation about the status of computer vision.