If the new algorithm does indeed solve a deeper problem in machine vision, and is indeed as good
as human vision at solving any CAPTCHA - like problem, then this is breakthrough territory.
Not exact matches
As of last year, Google's Cloud Vision AI was as good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter
As of last year, Google's Cloud
Vision AI was
as good as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter
as good
as or better than a human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter
as or better than a
human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter).
Musk's long - term
vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet
as «a nice place to be» — and allow
humans to become a multi-planetary species.
«Musk's long - term
vision is to terraform Mars — reengineer our neighboring planet
as «a nice place to be» — and allow
humans to become a multiplanetary species.
In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet
as part of his
vision of making
humans into a «multiplanetary species.»
While any system can store a photo, computer
vision involves teaching the computer to understand what's happening in the image, the same
as a
human would.
The democratic
vision offers, Robert A. Dahl writes, the hope «that by engaging in governing themselves, all people, and not merely a few, may learn to act
as morally responsible
human beings.»
It would be natural, then, to make Orthodox theological anthropology the overarching theme of the Council and to address all other questions — such
as jurisdictional disputes, ecumenical dialogue, and
human rights —
as embraced in the common Orthodox
vision for the renewal of humanity.
Although he often expressed this
vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith
as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior
as a
human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims
as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....
rather than seeing these
as an imposed set of rules, we can see these
as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like
visions, rules can make failures of us, where
as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more
human.
In constructing a black liberation theology, Jones»
vision returns him, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, to «rivers ancient
as the world and older than the flow of
human blood in
human veins.
These it takes
as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a
vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and
human decency» (ICC 6).
Jesus Christ is not perceived
as a useless remnant of patriarchy but
as a
human being who offers a hope and
vision of God that is not sex - linked.
To meet the person where they are is to begin with the phenomena of their life, and to strive to engage them in such a way
as to enable them to see that their own phenomenal experience can, if they listen closely, reveal the truth of the Catholic
vision of the
human person.
The fate of the book is merely a detail in the sweeping
vision of Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: When
Humans Transcend Biology (Viking), but it is exemplary: Just
as....
People do somehow expect the Church to take on this role - of protecting truth, encouraging learning, accepting with honesty a
vision of
human beings
as they really are.
«The Christian
vision of the
human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul
as well
as a body is of central importance.
The eschatological
vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age
as the outcome of
human effort, has come to be regarded
as illusion.
But where God plays no vital role in
human experience and
vision, he is either nonexistent,
as for the Buddhist, or dead,
as for the modern Christian.
At the end of that Chapter he calls us to develop «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic
vision of
human events» (n. 77, his emphasis,
as with all such quotes below).
-LSB-...] Caritas in Veritate has real literary and practical flaws -LSB-...] yet, viewed in the light of Benedict's earlier encyclicals, Caritas in Veritate can be seen
as one long call to conversion -LSB-... requiring] «new eyes and a new heart, capable of rising above a materialistic
vision of
human events.»
As Lila sits copying, Robinson graces us with a
vision of the moment when humanism opens our selves to us, and makes us more
human.
The philosopher who did most to shape this
vision of the world, Rene Descartes, regarded the
human mind
as wholly different in nature.
The religious
vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the
human community
as a kind of besieged citadel preserving itself through the tribute it paid to the powers that both threatened and enlivened it.
Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of
human existence,
as well
as providing our culture with a shared
vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.
While in one sense it is correct to identify this consciousness and experience
as a
human phenomenon, in another sense it is not; for a total
vision, or a quest for it, must negate and oppose every isolated and particular expression of experience, and therefore it must set itself against everything which is given or immediately present to us
as consciousness or experience.
This
vision of God
as Satan is consummated in Jerusalem where the Spectrous Chaos says to Albion, «that
Human Form you call Divine is but a Worm,» and then reveals that God is the «Great Selfhood, Satan» (33: 1 - 24)
Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about
human beings (just not in the same sense
as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work
as the «true
human'that humanity may come closer to this
vision.
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his
vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian
vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space
as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex
as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just
as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female
as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian
vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God
as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian
vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual
human being (the «minute particular»); and (10)
as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only
vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
Teilhard's importance, Berry believes, lies in his comprehensive
vision of the universe
as a psychic - spiritual
as well
as a physical - material process, his perception of the
human as the consciousness of the universe, and his shifting of the focus of Western religious concern from redemption to creation.
What was really at stake in the «60s was a new
vision of
human selfhood
as corporate selfhood — not identification with success but solidarity with the poor.
I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's
vision of
human life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed
as well
as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it comes.
In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus
as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the
vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this
vision in its earthly,
human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral
vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling
human satisfaction.
Here the theological understanding of
human being
as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual
vision.
To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus
as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness
as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal
vision which he has presented
as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in
human satisfactions.
The spiritual
vision of modernity
as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world
as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of
human rationality; and the ethos of secularism
as the basis of social ordering.
The Marxist - Leninist
vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described
as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that
human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.
Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a
vision of life that makes
human happiness central and sees us
as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.
What we should have done is to see that in the «Galilean
vision»,
as Whitehead called it, we have the clue to the proper category for use in the God - man relationship; the category is «love in action», the divine Lover acting and the
human intentional lover acting too.
So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see
visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium
as well
as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the
human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God
as well?
From within our
human history God's
vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve
as the foundation of our biblical tradition.
A Christian view of time and history which preserves the truth and rejects the illusion in man's
vision of history can organize and release
human energies today
as it did in the days of St. Augustine, and
as it did in the bright days of the nineteenth century when the prospect of a reborn society on earth seemed to light the way.
Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and,
as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during
human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their
vision of Him.
This is the true
vision of the Church of the final meaning of
human life, something that could and should be presented to young people
as fundamental to their spiritual lives and indeed to everyaspect of their lives.
«We must be prepared to live with the
vision contained in the [Rawls»] original position, mutual disinterest and all,» he writes, «prepared to live with it in the sense of accepting its description
as an accurate reflection of
human moral circumstance, consistent with our understanding of ourselves.»
If God's love is named eros by this definition, then the transformative power of God's love
as a paradigm for
human loving feeds the feminist
vision of mutuality.
This type sees culture
as the raw material that can be shaped by Christians according to the Christian
vision of
human life.
The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the
human heart to the love of God and its demands, the
vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus
as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.
It can be construed most narrowly
as a fear of death, but more richly
as a longing for a different
vision of life's possibilities — a life that does not end, that remains engaging and fulfilling, and that unites us once and forever with those we love, whether divine or
human.
But the
vision of a more humanizing community can become a reality only
as these institutions function more fully
as human growth and development centers!