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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

https://xkcd.com/1425

Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.


Edit: seems I'm the third person to comment this! :')

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

https://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or-bird/

This page about it still exists, but I guess the identification site died with Flickr.

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