[wlug] How Computers Got Shockingly Good At Recognizing Images

Some good background on the origins of all the current hubbub over automated image recognition: <https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/how-computers-got-shockingly-good-at-recognizing-images/>. A key breakthrough came in 2012, when a team at the University of Toronto combined the “convolutional” neural network concept with a massive deployment of sheer computing power to leave its competitors in the dust in the “ImageNet” image-recognition competition that year. That team are now working at Google. Oh, and the recognition algorithms are now scoring better than many humans in some areas.