[kens]

That XKCD was published 2014-09-24. So less than 10 years later, identifying objects in photos has gone from an impossible research task to trivial.

There's a complete list of publication dates at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_all_comic...

[iamcurious]

Well, the comic did say it would take 5 years.