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"There’s no computer algorithm that can..."

"Yet", my friends, "yet".

I love reading quotes like that because it speaks to pure opportunity. Someone will eventually figure out an algorithmic solution to X, and that should remind us all how wrong the "all the good ideas have been done" line of thinking really is.

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What you're saying is true, but to be fair this really is just about a worst case scenario for automated image recognition because it is unclear what is being looked for but "you'll know it when you see it".

Solving this in a way that doesn't generate an enormous amount of false positives requires something very close to a general purpose AI.

Uh, why does it look like this comment thread got lost and ended up on the wrong article?

I'm going to guess that it looks like that because you only read the headline and not the article?

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