Alt text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.

Edit: seems I'm the third person to comment this! :')

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 21 hours ago

"Cat? Dog? Pig? LOAF OF BREAD. SYSTEM ERROR!"

https://youtu.be/LaK_8-3pWKk

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

I love how this is actually an example of progress. These days, ML can be used for this kinda thing and it's not too bad at it even.

[–] Giloron@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

https://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or-bird/

This page about it still exists, but I guess the identification site died with Flickr.