Question

text 1
efforts to automate classification of paintings into different artistic styles have had little success and we have probably reached the technological limit of this work. furthermore, its not obvious that this is even a useful endeavor - as several critics have argued, differences between artistic styles are inherently subjective and often not the best way to understand relationships between works.

text 2
baroque painting utilized a very similar color palette as renaissance painting did in depict largely the same subjects that renaissance painting depicted. automated artistic - style classifiers often struggle to draw distinctions between these two styles, but rayneet singh arora and ahmed elgammal were able to achieve a high degree of accuracy in baroque - renaissance comparisons by running one classification model atop another, an approach that demonstrates how much innovation is possible in this realm

based on the texts, how would the author of text 2 most likely respond to the claim in the underlined sentence of text 1?
a by emphasizing that there are still advances being made in automated artistic style classification
b by criticizing previous research into automated artistic style classification systems for focusing on a narrow group of styles
c by arguing that most people are not able to correctly identify the style of paintings that they are shown
d by suggesting that people may eventually develop more uniform and accepted ideas about artistic styles and their boundaries

Explanation:

Text 1 claims limited success and technological limits in automated classification of paintings' artistic styles. Text 2 shows that there are innovative approaches achieving high - accuracy in distinguishing between styles (Baroque - Renaissance). So the author of Text 2 would likely emphasize ongoing advances in this area.

Answer:

A. By emphasizing that there are still advances being made in automated artistic style classification