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Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by TomVDB on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:26AM (#20271421)
Your comment reminds me of this xkcd cartoon: https://xkcd.com/1425/

It's 5 years old now (coincidentally the time span quoted to develop a solution), but recognizing a bird was already considered a solved problem 3 years ago, less than 2 years after the publication of the cartoon.

Predicting the future is hard.

Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:26AM (#20272141)
Surprisingly, recognizing a bird is much harder when you count rare species and running birds. Thus, sparse data. Does it recognize penguins too?

AIs today still fail at it. Some folks were trying to train one to match endangered species and they had to pull mighty tricks to have some 70% accuracy. I think it was here on HN some time ago, but can't recall a link.

Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by visarga on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:37AM (#20272480)
And yet, average humans can classify even fewer species.
Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by tomp on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @09:29AM (#20273926)
With the same amount of training/data as NNs? I doubt it...
Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by TomVDB on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @02:34PM (#20277361)
Do you take into account billions of years of training due to evolution?
Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by tomp on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:27PM (#20279701)
Technically that’s network architecture, not training data... admittedly though humans are “pre-trained” from birth.
Re:The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I. by nikbackm on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:57AM (#20272894)
Also after extensively studying ornithology?