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Re:Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are im... by webmaven on Monday January 02, 2017 @09:45AM (#13301355)
> Automatic image and video captioning is in a very sorry state. Machines can't do it.

You may have missed various dramatic improvements over the past year:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=%22image+ca...

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Re:Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are im... by dilemma on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:05AM (#13301478)
Definitely haven't. Where is captioning applied with human like accuracy?
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Re:Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are im... by webmaven on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:19AM (#13301567)
Hmm. I suggest that recent SOTA results contradict your contention that the field is in "a very sorry state" and you up the standard to "human like accuracy". Feels like the goalposts are being moved.

Anyway, this paper demonstrates some impressive results:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.06607v1.pdf

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