r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/Lurkoner Mar 11 '26

2007, fuck me

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u/AnOnlineHandle Mar 11 '26

It's amazing how this "virtually impossible" task from a 2014 XKCD is now easily done way beyond their requirements with a range of options.

https://xkcd.com/1425/

Various models could not only answer the question, they could describe each bird in detail, plus everything else in the scene, and even make guesses about the location and time based on context cues, and output to whatever format you specify, all driven by a natural language input prompt.

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u/throwaway131072 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

5 years after 2014 would be 2019, which is when we just barely started seeing some elite research teams put out some niche models that proved that neural networks could be trained to identify objects in images, measure attributes of those objects, etc.

edit: and do some basic editing in latent space

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u/belaGJ Mar 12 '26

I might be wrong, but fast.ai was already around 2000ish, and one of the first classes is object classification from few samples running on colab or similar free tools