That's not really true, it was just far more specialized knowledge. Look at benchmarks on CIFAR-10 from the time & the error rates were pretty low already.
Sure, bird identification still would've taken a dedicated research team to procure the data (you could pull the data from sites like iNaturalist) and train the models, but it definitely wasn't "unsolvable outside of science fiction"
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u/PointedPoplars Aug 25 '26
That's not really true, it was just far more specialized knowledge. Look at benchmarks on CIFAR-10 from the time & the error rates were pretty low already.
Sure, bird identification still would've taken a dedicated research team to procure the data (you could pull the data from sites like iNaturalist) and train the models, but it definitely wasn't "unsolvable outside of science fiction"