> how is it possible to learn superhuman performance in anything from examples of mere human performance at the same task? I don't believe in magic.
Computers could be better at assigning probabilities to ambiguous examples. In particular, for an image that is very ambiguous for most humans, maybe a computer would assign 99% probability to it (hence it would be only a little bit ambiguous).
That's not how it works. Assigning a high probability to anything is trivial: just add 90% to any probability calculation. The important thing is how close your guess is to the right answer.
Computers could be better at assigning probabilities to ambiguous examples. In particular, for an image that is very ambiguous for most humans, maybe a computer would assign 99% probability to it (hence it would be only a little bit ambiguous).