>> Your argument about classifying images trivially excludes the large amount of data and training that any human brain experiences during early childhood.
Not at all. That's exactly what I mean when I say that the way our brain does image recognition also takes into account context.
Our algorithms are pushing the limits of our computing hardware and yet they have no way to deal with the context a human toddler already has collected in his or her brain.
>> It takes many months to train a human brain so that it would recognize what a cat is, far more than a few calories
I noted it would take _me_ less than a second to learn to identify a new animal from an image. Obviously my brain is already trained, if you like: it has a context, some sort of general knowledge of the world that is still far, far from what a computer can handle.
I'm guessing you thought I was talking about something else, a toddler's brain maybe?
Not at all. That's exactly what I mean when I say that the way our brain does image recognition also takes into account context.
Our algorithms are pushing the limits of our computing hardware and yet they have no way to deal with the context a human toddler already has collected in his or her brain.
>> It takes many months to train a human brain so that it would recognize what a cat is, far more than a few calories
I noted it would take _me_ less than a second to learn to identify a new animal from an image. Obviously my brain is already trained, if you like: it has a context, some sort of general knowledge of the world that is still far, far from what a computer can handle.
I'm guessing you thought I was talking about something else, a toddler's brain maybe?