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[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by drcy

The experienced human eye is a sophisticated tool. When you look at a T206 Honus Wagner and instantly know it's a reprint, that's sophistication a computer program can't do.

It's called machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI). You develop a learning algorithm for a machine and then feed it a large data set to learn from, knowing the truth. Is this real or fake? Has it been altered? There are even cases now where the machine learns on it's own, without a given set of exemplars. And the speed at which a machine can make those decisions is way beyond a human's ability. You are right about traditional software where a human has to code all the intelligence into the machine's decision making process. But AI/machine learning, there is some crazy stuff happening now. And grading/authenticating a baseball card aint that far of a reach.