How Artificial Intelligence Is Primed To Beat You At Where's Waldo

How Artificial Intelligence Is Primed To Beat You At Where's Waldo
EUGENE, OR - SEPTEMBER 22: A 'Where's Waldo?' fan watches the game between the Oregon Ducks and the Arizona Wildcats on September 22, 2012 at the Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)
EUGENE, OR - SEPTEMBER 22: A 'Where's Waldo?' fan watches the game between the Oregon Ducks and the Arizona Wildcats on September 22, 2012 at the Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

By their second birthday, children are learning the names of things. What’s this? Cat. And this? Whale. Very good. What’s this color? Red! That’s right. You love red. The human brain is good at making some cognitive tasks look easy -- when they aren’t easy at all. Teaching software to recognize objects, for example, has been a challenge in computer science. And up until a few years ago, computers were pretty terrible at it.

However, like many things once the sole domain of humans, machines are rapidly improving their ability to slice and dice, sort and name objects like we do.

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