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The flavor of the bitter lesson for computer vision - Vincent Sitzmann

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I believe that computer vision as we know it is about to go away. Historically, we have treated vision as a mapping from images to intermediate representations—classes, segmentation masks, or 3D reconstructions. But in the era of the Bitter Lesson, these distinct tasks are becoming qualitatively no different than edge detection: historical artifacts of scoping “solvable intermediate problems” rather than solving intelligence. While the “LLM moment” in NLP clarified that language modeling is the ultimate objective, the vision community is still debating the flavor of its own revolution. We cont

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