Really, humans are not so different. Online and in person, we pattern-match on a few scant signals, sometimes jumping to ridiculous conclusions as a result. (1) Granted, we have much better machinery for recognizing the kinematics of fellow animals. There's compelling evolutionary reasons for animals to become really, really good at this.
If one paired the present classifiers with Amazon Mechanical Turk, just providing one bit of information -- "is-it-an-animal?" -- I wonder how well the current classifiers would fare in relation to human beings?
(1) - Ironically, the more "cosmopolitan" people become, the quicker they are to jump to such conclusions!
If one paired the present classifiers with Amazon Mechanical Turk, just providing one bit of information -- "is-it-an-animal?" -- I wonder how well the current classifiers would fare in relation to human beings?
(1) - Ironically, the more "cosmopolitan" people become, the quicker they are to jump to such conclusions!