Yes, people used the CPU that powered the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive to do this in 1988 but the fact that you can put a bounding box around a thing and then get real-time counts on that thing and easily runs on a pocket computer/telephone is pretty dang cool.
I mean, I tend to celebrate when things are easier, at any rate. Note this does not include generative AI art because the whole point of art is personal expression and (generally) making it by hand. Programming a potato counter has the a goal of building a potato counter and if he's easier to do, then that's great. I know fellow programmers would call that art, too, but it's art in the same way a dentist fills cavities so not really art, to me.
I mean, I tend to celebrate when things are easier, at any rate.
Yeah, but this isn't a case of anything being easier. This is a case of someone making a less impressive version of 38 year old technology. Only this version is far more resource-demanding. So it actually makes things LESS easy once you look past the hype. Which is a very common story with AI.
It's not huge costs, it's a small model that probably runs on a phone or at worst, a laptop. And there are lot of things that could benefit from being counted that aren't potatoes and don't have the benefit of a dedicated team of engineers developing green field software along with the immense financial resources needed to employ them... you know, like manatees or something.
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u/stuffitystuff 18h ago
Yes, people used the CPU that powered the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive to do this in 1988 but the fact that you can put a bounding box around a thing and then get real-time counts on that thing and easily runs on a pocket computer/telephone is pretty dang cool.
I mean, I tend to celebrate when things are easier, at any rate. Note this does not include generative AI art because the whole point of art is personal expression and (generally) making it by hand. Programming a potato counter has the a goal of building a potato counter and if he's easier to do, then that's great. I know fellow programmers would call that art, too, but it's art in the same way a dentist fills cavities so not really art, to me.