Pattern Classification
Animals are divided as follows into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) sucking pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they are mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance. - The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
I do just enough work in pattern classification to know how far off good artificial intelligence is. The above quote gets at why problems like realtime translation or image labeling are so damn hard, in what I think is a very elegant way.
I do just enough work in pattern classification to know how far off good artificial intelligence is. The above quote gets at why problems like realtime translation or image labeling are so damn hard, in what I think is a very elegant way.