www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks
A month after this comic came out, Flickr responded with a prototype online tool to do something similar to what the comic describes, using its automated-tagging software. According to them, the bird solution “took us less than 5 years to build, though it’s definitely a hard problem, and we’ve still got room for improvement”.
(the site parkorbird.flickr.com is no longer online)
wantd2B1ofthestrokes@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well research teams have been working on it 10 years
dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 year ago
they did good
hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 1 year ago
They’d already been on it for a few decades 5 years ago…
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
And crazy how not only can tools recognize birds but generate novel new images of them.
zepplenzap@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Exactly!