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At the risk of stating the obvious, even if this were true and we were actually really far away from AI or good computer vision classification, Moore's law shou
by abetusk 12y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, even if this were true and we were actually really far away from AI or good computer vision classification, Moore's law should take effect. For every order of magnitude of difficulty it is, by whatever measure, we should only need to wait a linear amount of time.
Also, notice that for this particular picture a lot of what the article is talking about doesn't matter:
- Does it matter that they're in a hallway?
- Does it matter there are mirrors?
- Does it matter that one person is the president?
The main gag is having one person standing on a scale with the intent of making a weight measurement while the other is subverting that intent, presumably with the knowledge of bystanders. My bet is that this picture could be classified as funny, even correctly labelling the joke, if the picture was tagged and a classifier were run on a large database of other tagged pictures.
- arbitrage 12y agoThere's the explicit gag itself, and it's an old one, of stepping on a scale. The real joke, however, is in fact that it is the president. It's more humorous because it shows the president as a real person. It's unexpected, and out of context of how we typically understand the holder of the office of the president of the united states should behave. That's the main joke. So yes, the finer details are important. It's not just a funny picture.
- ifdefdebug 12y agoI doubt a system could be written with today's technology capable of deciding if a picture is funny/not funny based on a huge database of funny/not funny hand tagged pictures. Too much is involved. What does "is funny" even mean?