I'm pretty blown away by this. I took a picture of myself in the mirror with the scene description feature, and it said "probably a man standing in front of a mirror posing for the camera". I took a picture of the room in front of me and it said "probably a living room". Think I'll be experimenting with this for days.
Seeing AI for iOS
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Re: Seeing AI for iOS
#82The videos explaining it are really nice https://youtu.be/dqE1EWsEyx4
Re: Seeing AI for iOS
#83Yes, YES, this is what I'm talking about Microsoft. I'm surprised how muted the reaction is from HN here. On the technical side, this is a perfect example of how AI can be used effectively, and is a (very obvious in hindsight) application of the cutting edge in scene understanding and HCI. There are quite a few recent and advanced techniques rolled into one product here, and although I haven't tried it out yet it see…
Also on the technical side, the fact that Microsoft (Microsoft!) is releasing an iOS-only app, even if it comes from its research department, is maybe more shocking than its open-source releases of late. Who are you, Microsoft?!
Didn't they release an iOS-only photo app years ago that was also very clever? IIRC it collated thousands of user photos of a single piece of architecture into a 3D model or something
Edit: Just checked App Store. Microsoft has literally hundreds of apps on there. You should probably go look. But I can't find the app I'm talking about lol
EDIT 2: Found a story on it! 11 years ago!! https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/07/7381/
It was called Photosynth and it seems to have disappeared from the Internet :(
EDIT 3: crap they just shut it down THIS YEAR! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/photosynth/2017/02/06/micro... It was cool as hell!
Re: Seeing AI for iOS
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes sense to start with iOS anyway, it's known for having great accessibility. A lot of people with accessibility needs use iOS for that reason.
Also rumours has it that Apple punishes you in the app store if you launch on Android first.
I just used my best google-fu and can find no evidence for this. If you're going to make controversial claims like that in the future, include a link to the evidence or you will mostly just end up spreading FUD.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like FUD.
Its not. Developers of a famous podcast app have a number of long posts about this subject. Also, Apple will ban your app if it has the word "android" anywhere in it.
So a single app developer experienced unknown delays and attributed that to the fact that they launched on Android first... How's that anecdotal evidence going?
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#86One of my friends from college has limited vision and the feature to read text aloud will be a game changing convenience.
He has a magnifier in his home, but it isn't portable and is limited to working only with documents and images that can lie flat.
edit: After speaking with my friend, he already uses a popular app called KNFB Reader that works very well on short text and documents, but costs $100. On the plus side, it works on Android or iOS.
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#87Yes, YES, this is what I'm talking about Microsoft. I'm surprised how muted the reaction is from HN here. On the technical side, this is a perfect example of how AI can be used effectively, and is a (very obvious in hindsight) application of the cutting edge in scene understanding and HCI. There are quite a few recent and advanced techniques rolled into one product here, and although I haven't tried it out yet it see…
Also on the technical side, the fact that Microsoft (Microsoft!) is releasing an iOS-only app, even if it comes from its research department, is maybe more shocking than its open-source releases of late. Who are you, Microsoft?!
To be honest I guess it's most likely a combiation of their bing speech and vision apis, so as there are android sdks for all of them, you could easily reproduce this as an android app.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not. Developers of a famous podcast app have a number of long posts about this subject. Also, Apple will ban your app if it has the word "android" anywhere in it.
So a single app developer experienced unknown delays and attributed that to the fact that they launched on Android first... How's that anecdotal evidence going?
I'm sure the part about Apple punishing you for launching on Android first is rubbish, but the second claim is true - App Store rules are that you can't mention the word 'Android'.
Rule 2.3.1:
"don’t include names, icons, or imagery of other mobile platforms in your app or metadata"
And here is a case where they actually enforced it:
Re: Seeing AI for iOS
#89The use of AI and ML for application purposes is starting to get to a point that it can really be used for problem solving, we did a demo app similar use of this technology, https://zyanya.tech/hashtagger-android
I am going to give Seeing AI a try as well, but I totally understand why a research department would like to have a demo as an Application available for public.
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#90Unimpressed. Took a picture of a ceiling fan and it said, "probably a chair sitting in front of a mirror." Took a pic of a dresser, and it said "a bedroom with a wooden floor." Tried the ceiling fan again and got an equally absurd answer.
Deleted app.