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by jph00 3069 days ago
Whilst there are plenty of things in CV that computers aren't super-human at yet, object classification (given 100+ examples) is not one of them. In datasets with tens of thousands of categories, humans are much worse than computers - e.g. humans are really not good at knowing the difference between every type of mushroom, algae, and model of airplane.

Further, nearly every time a computer recently has been trained to do some very nuanced classification, such as in radiology, they exceed human expert performance.

(Outside of classification, computers are rapidly making progress - for instance they are getting surprisingly good at predicting the next few frames of a video, which requires a lot of "world knowledge" to do correctly.)