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by robot197 3168 days ago
Yeah, on the ImageNet data set, where all the images are pretty unclear, low res and cropped weirdly leaving out context, deep learning "beats" human vision system.

Human brain beats everything for now. It is a much more generic system.

I don't know enough about the specific fields you talked about to comment.

Deep learning is an incredibly powerful tool, but we should differentiate between its actual merit and the huge hype around it, mostly done for PR and misleading investors/financial analyst.
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cujic9 3168 days ago
You are moving the goalposts.

If we're talking about doing a specific task within a well-defined framework, computers are already proving to be superhuman. That includes image recognition beyond ImageNet, as well as games like Go.

But yes, if we're talking about a generic system, then humans are better. And I think they will be for a long time.

And yes, I agree, there is a lot of noise and sizzle around AI (but there is also quite a bit of steak there too.)

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