What are the remaining supervised tasks that are easy for humans and hard for machine learning? For example, CAPTCHA is one such task.

I want to see if the tasks have something in common. Maybe the input given to the machines is missing some important information.

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asked Sep 05 '10 at 06:55

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It depends on how you define a "supervised" task.

A task which is definitely hard for computer and easy for humans is open domain question answering. You can cast it as a binary classification if you restrict it to yes-no questions. It would still be very hard for a computer to get it right for arbitrary questions.

Another set of tasks could be easily derived from vision problems, by asking "is that a picture of a __?". these are hard also for concrete objects such as "a horse" but can get much much harder when you move to more abstract objects, or entire scenes ("wedding", "fight", "sports-event").

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answered Sep 05 '10 at 07:37

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edited Sep 05 '10 at 07:42

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