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How would that teach Lens to recognise anything other than motorcycles and traffic lights really well?
I've had many, many not traffic light and motorcycle/bicycle recaptchas. They're probably leaning a bit into self driving learning the past few years.
Lens has a lot more data points nowadays after everyone's google photos was used for training for what, 10+ years at this point?
Google harvested all human typed words 15 years ago with the google library project. They've been hoarding and processing data for models forever.
I was being at least partly facetious because I rarely get anything but motorcycles and traffic lights and even then it'll most likely ask me about buses or bridges. Not disagreeing that they're hoarding data :)