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by kvb 3748 days ago
Ensembles of humans can outperform the average human, and in the same way an algorithm trained on data labeled by an ensemble of humans can outperform the average human.
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Beating the average human does not make you "superhuman". Here's a quick proof: there exist mere humans with above-average performance who can outperform the "average human". Those people are human. Therefore, they're not superhuman.

Besides, I have no idea whether the people who tagged Imagenet are the "average human", nor whether an ensemble of them can outperform the "average human".

Also, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't necessarily follow that an algorithm trained by many X can outperform any X. Most humans are trained by an ensemble of humans and they don't necessarily outperform the "average human".

Mind you, I'm not saying I _know_ what "superhuman" is, but then again I'm not the one who claims to have created an example of it.