> 1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what it thinks a feather looks like.
I was prompted to draw a hurricane. I drew something that looked like the typical hurricane doodle used on news reports.
The software didn't recognize it.
When the game was over and I was able to look at all of the doodles that were used to train the software to recognize a hurricane ... the majority of them instead looked like tornadoes!
So maybe we should more precisely say:
1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what the humans who contributed its training set think a feather looks like.
I was prompted to draw a hurricane. I drew something that looked like the typical hurricane doodle used on news reports.
The software didn't recognize it.
When the game was over and I was able to look at all of the doodles that were used to train the software to recognize a hurricane ... the majority of them instead looked like tornadoes!
So maybe we should more precisely say:
1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what the humans who contributed its training set think a feather looks like.