
19 Dec
2018
19 Dec
'18
4:39 a.m.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:51:18 +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:16:38PM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
<https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/how-computers-got-shockingly-good-at-recognizing-images/>.
Oh, and the recognition algorithms are now scoring better than many humans in some areas.
On images like what they were trained on. They can completely fail on simple (sometime invisible) modifications to images which humans are not fooled by.
Perhaps that is less true than it used to be. The article gives examples where even the mistakes made by the CNN were remarkably close to the truth.