[ramesh31]

There was an XKCD comic around that timeframe: https://xkcd.com/1425/

And it really sticks out as one of the few paradigm shifts we’ve had in the last 10 years. In 2009, it really was an impossible task to do that kind of image recognition. But by 2012, it was available in a library for anyone.

[nl]

Small correction - it wasn't until 2014 that it was widely available in libraries.

AlexNet was September 2012.

FlickR did their XKCD1425 bird detector in Oct 2014: https://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-o...

[VoidWhisperer]

Unfortunately their parkorbird site no longer exists and leads to a yahoo error page

[HWR_14]

Wasn't it about 5 years between when the XKCD comic was published and it became a library. Powered by the work of numerous research teams.

[w-ll]

Even outside of image recognition, this is my most common referenced XKCD comic, with non tech managers trying to guess timelines of work.

[mikepurvis]

That honour goes to 927 in my circles, and it's not even close.