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I'm pretty sure that software can tell the difference between birds and houses now.

On the other hand, Google's software can't tell the difference between black people and gorillas.

http://mashable.com/2015/07/01/google-photos-black-people-go...

I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised that we've already reached this level of functionality. Imagine aliens coming to our planet and starting classifying stuff on Earth. The idea that alien intelligence without some seeded knowledge would mistakenly make this inference doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility.

If StreetView blurring is anything to go by, it can't tell the difference between a human face and a brick wall.

I'd excuse that by saying it's tuned to be extremely conservative and not accidentally miss someone, but it routinely misses faces too.

Even our purpose-built image recognition has a long way to go.

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