https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1906.07997/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113100urn:hackerpapers:mention:1906.07997:33113100Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:46:37 GMT<p>What&#x27;s really incredible to me is how right the prediction was, but also that it was real. In 2014, classifying images as &quot;containing a bird&quot; was a nigh-on-impossible task. Not an impossible one, and image classification was already in production use in limited forms with mapping agencies and the like, but beyond anyone&#x27;s capability at the time. In 2017, Not Hotdog was a novelty app - Image classification was real, but limited, and didn&#x27;t have a great reputation yet. By 2019, papers[1] were being written on image classification as a service and where their pitfalls were, but the idea was…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1906.07997/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV