Comment by kragen

The reason this is interesting is that five years ago, or even two years ago, producing such a "painfully obvious" description from such a photo with a computer was utterly impossible, and ten years ago it was unthinkable. The capability to do this automatically at scale for trivial cost has many nonobvious implications (for example for cloud photo storage and drone warfare), and it invalidates many widely held implicit beliefs. We are only beginning to dimly grasp how this will change the world.