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Are you sure your son is fine with you giving Microsoft his image and accepting all what you permit them by doing so?

God only knows. I guess if he shows up at school and people say, "hey, you look just like that Microsoft kid!", I'd feel slightly guilty. Seems unlikely, and I'd have reasonable grounds for a C&D.

Actually, their ToS says they can do whatever the hell they want with it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/c...

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

#102
Tried it with three different pictures, one from clker.com (http://www.clker.com/cliparts/0/3/f/0/1194984730712928848mag...) mistaken for a lamp-post, and two from unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/2Ts5HnA67k8 and https://unsplash.com/photos/iIg4F2IWbTM). In the latter two it tells me that it cannot recognise anything. So for me, it isn't there yet....

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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post #99

CaptionBot team here. Thanks for the images and captions! Please keep sharing them and give us feedback.

First of all congratulations on a) the science (built on the shoulder of giants...) b) the accessibility / interface and service Wondering if you plan to open up a caption API of any sort? Can definitely use something like this. If you desire the training feedback, then that could be added as well as part of the API. I'd be willing to do that for some images. So if you do add a training feedback API, please make it o…

Thanks! We published all the APIs for free. Check them out @ https://www.captionbot.ai/Home/Magic

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Imagine this tech matures and it can be incorporated with bodycams for police, when confronting a subject with objects in their hands it may be able to confidently estimate the probability of being a firearm or not, with better predictability than the police/people.

...and better proveability. Most people are actually unarmed. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-america... While we're here, let's go the full way and set up a proveable and public way to train a robocop, and I'd trust that more than a human cop. The awkward moment when AIs have more brains than cops (at least under the US system).

Likely before we get to robocops the "robocops" will be integrated into people who have proven risky by either previously known behavior in addition to social signals.

So Jane truant with convictions of petty theft or battery gets off with probation if she agrees to embed her own personal "robocop". Yes invasion of privacy, etc. But the alternative for her would be time in the pen, for example. So in this case people can become their own robocops who turn the host in to authorities if certain conditions are met (engages in previously restricted activities).

I think this is more likely than a roving robotic cop which looks out for misdeeds.

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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It doesn't seem to know about rockets. http://imgur.com/mqRuLVq.png (I tried the spacex landing pictures too - it correctly identified "a boat in a large body of water" but ignored the ten-story rocket above said boat.)

I posted a photo of Just Read The Instructions, got: "I am not really confident, but I think it's a yellow motorcycle.".

-.-

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