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KerbalsFTW t1_iuvqv2v wrote

> How's that, a few seconds of Clip of The fruit was more than enough for my brain to easily identify it from meters away but a ML would need so many of the same clips.

Short answer: we don't know.

Long answer: you have much more compute available than most classification projects. Billions of neurons, thousands of synapses each, and a neuron is a lot more capable than a transistor. Even if we organised enough compute to be human capable, we don't know how to organise it to be human capable. You have an exceptional one-shot classification capability because you are extremely good at classifying objects (especially natural food for obvious reasons), partly because you are so good at recognising what something is not.

You are also cheating a little: you know that dragon fruit is a fruit, and you are in a mall. You also know what all the other common fruits are, so your brain sees an item and instantly you know it's in a mall therefore it is probably food, and it's not something you recognise as normal. So you are now comparing "unknown thing" against "list of rare things that don't get seen much". Less satisfyingly you might have gotten lucky.

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