https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/lossy_image_compression/

For all the fuss over algorithms and machine learning, computation can't quite compete with people when it comes to lossy image compression.

Comp sci boffins from Stanford University and student interns from three Bay Area high schools devised a system to assess how code instructions interpreted by a computer differ from text instructions interpreted by a person when attempting to compress an image.