I have no hesitation in arguing that our textual understanding is currently far worse.
E.g. modern deep-learning classifiers can get high 90s F1-score on identifying entities in images, but what's our capability for recognizing e.g. product entities being mentioned in Amazon reviews? Good luck getting even 70% F1-score. It's still incredibly awful.
And this is just talking about very basic entity recognition in realistic settings. Lets not even consider relation extraction, and more meaningful tasks.
E.g. modern deep-learning classifiers can get high 90s F1-score on identifying entities in images, but what's our capability for recognizing e.g. product entities being mentioned in Amazon reviews? Good luck getting even 70% F1-score. It's still incredibly awful.
And this is just talking about very basic entity recognition in realistic settings. Lets not even consider relation extraction, and more meaningful tasks.