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! :')

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours 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 2 points 7 hours 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.