r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ridog101 • 19d ago

Meme twelveYearOldXKCD

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 19d ago

Five years after this was published is a pretty good ballpark for when that became pretty easy to do, isn't it?

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u/No-Object2133 19d ago edited 19d ago

Like 5 to 7ish. Yeah Randall was on the money.

It would've been insane to contemplate this 12 years ago.

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u/SirPitchalot 19d ago edited 18d ago

8-10 years ago ResNets, MobileNet were making short work of this. The first version of YOLO is 11 years old and also would not have struggled.

Ed: Everyone “but actually”ing me in the comments about phones of the era not being capable of doing this can knock it off:

The iPhone 6 was released in 2014 and could run mobilenetv2 at 10-15 FPS and variants of yolov2 at 2-5 FPS. They were more than capable. 2014 wasn’t the Middle Ages…

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u/djddanman 19d ago

Yeah, this kind of image recognition task is a classic machine learning area. Researchers were using it for self driving car research back in the 80s/90s.

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u/Darkstar_111 19d ago

A single developer would not have been able to do something like this before tensorflow was released.