It's a keen way to get us websters to train it. Hey, popfile works....
tOM
On Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 5:25,
Manuel Viet <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le mardi 28 Novembre 2006 20:06, tOM Trottier a écrit :
> > FYI,
> > 5. TEACHING COMPUTERS TO RECOGNIZE IMAGES
> > http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/ps-rtc110106.php
>
> Thank you for the link, it's been a long time since I hadn't laughed that
> much ; I tested a range of my personal images on the site, and the guesswork
> of the AI is about as good as a seer. Of course, with categories as broad as
> 'transports', 'sports', 'people', there's at least one match out of 15. I can
> do that much without even looking at a picture.
>
> I'm totaly unconvinced, but it's fun nonetheless. Makes me think aout AI
> pranks of the old times, like the fake psychanalyst and such. (comp : "Tell
> me about your problem" user : "I don't like eating soup" comp "tell me more
> about soup eating" etc... for hours).
>
> But somehow, I think someday there will be something out of it ; it's just
> that today technology can't cope with a single picture in less than 2
> seconds. We human beings need years of training, and we're able to see our
> samples in volume ; it's much easier to infer a flat projection from a know
> 3D sample than recognize an arbitrary matrix of points. The day we start
> traigning computers with 3D models, then we might get on something out of 2D
> pictures. But the amount of needed computing power is scary.
>
> --
> Manuel Viet
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