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Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by dlubarov on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:25PM (#12316976)
> It's 2016 and our best of the best image recognition algorithms can't even tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart.

State of the art offline CNNs have been doing classification quite well recently, arguably better than humans. See the Inception-v3 paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00567v3.pdf

Re:Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh Thi... by argonaut on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:27PM (#12317441)
None of that changes the fact that they're easy to fool and have some pathological cases (that gambiting alludes to) that most humans consider quite dumb.