Cassie Kozyrkov
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Can you tell me what Katniss is?
Because to write those instructions is quite hard, isn't it?
And that's why computer vision was going nowhere in the 90s, because that's how they would approach it with traditional programming, where you write the steps.
And by the way, with traditional programming, you can only solve a problem where you know what the steps are.
How many complex problems in this world do we not know what the steps are for that?
Right?
So many of them.
And so much complexity will overwhelm our small human minds.
Right?
It's true.
Right.
Yeah, the puny human brain.
So how do we write down even the formula for what is a cat?
But you know what we do have?
The Internet's made of cats.
Examples.
Photograph after photograph after photograph.
Millions of them.
Billions of them.
And so we can use those examples...