captionbot.ai
Earlier this year, Microsoft caused some controversy by unleashing Tay, an artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot which, apparently, reflected the thoughts and feelings of young people around the world. As it turned out, a lot of those thoughts and feelings were racist and/or sexist, and Microsoft quickly took the bot offline.
CaptionBot, Microsoft’s latest venture into AI, is a lot less offensive. Upload a photo, and it will analyse its content, and try to tell you what it sees. We tried it with a few images and it’s surprisingly accurate – it recognised people in front of a building, a cup of coffee, and a smartphone screenshot. It’s not perfect, and it seems to have a preference for describing everyday objects as giraffes, but as it employs machine-learning, it will get more…
