In 1966, Professor Seymour Papert at MIT conceptualized an ambitious summer project titled The Summer Vision Project. The task for the graduate student was to plug a camera into a computer and enable it to understand what it sees! I am sure it would have been super-difficult for the graduate student to have finished this project, as even today the task remains half complete.
A human being, when they look outside, is able to recognize the objects that they see. Without thinking, they are able to classify a cat as a cat, a dog as a dog, a plant as a plant, an animal as an animal—this is happening because the human brain draws knowledge from its extensive prelearned database. After all, as human beings, we have millions of years' worth of evolutionary context that enables us draw inferences from the thing that we see. Computer...