On: The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (2012)

[tehwalrus]

> How can we even begin to go about writing an algorithm that can reason about the scene like I did?

You are doing AI wrong. AI should learn all of that context by itself, from a large amount of stimulus. If it was a good one, it might be able to learn enough in less than N years, where N is the age of a human who would laugh at the photo.

[scott_s → tehwalrus]

I think the author was using a linguistic-shorthand. He is an active researcher in the field: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/

[murbard2 → tehwalrus]

Not just "stimulus", but active exploration of the environment, communicating with and learning from other people, etc.

[visarga → tehwalrus]

If we could make AI study the relationship between objects in images and videos, it could learn a lot of raw common sense. Also, it could be useful to add a different domain to the mix by cross referencing that with information extracted from text.

[Varcht → tehwalrus]

It strikes me that a forum such as this one might make a great training tool for AI. So many good cues for following branched reasoning, dealing with ambiguity etc. I usually"read" the articles through the comments.

[Florin_Andrei → tehwalrus]

> AI should learn all of that context by itself, from a large amount of stimulus.

That's basically what Nature is doing anyway.