This is interesting. Honestly, I never thought this day would come that an older CNN is outperforming a frontier LLM. Guess there is just so much more to learn and optimize in this tech work which is always hyped for the next biggest model.
You must be out of touch with how machine learning works if this results surprises you.
Not really. I am not saying CNNs were bad in what they were doing. But comparing to a frontier model, I believe frontier models have an advantage over them. Not any other model, only frontier models. I create end to end AI/ML pipelines for clients usecases, so telling with experience.
Yeah but there has been no evidence to suggest that a frontier language model is going to be better at such a domain specific niche task than a vision model trained specifically for that task. This is not the same discussion as a foundation model vs CNNs (which in my opinion would have made for a better blog post than what OP tested)