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Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by icanhackit »

ridgeguy wrote: post #24

Interesting. I gave it a pic of me, and it returned "person" - good. I gave it a pic of my wife at a White House dinner, and it returned "construction" - a definite "What the heck?". I suppose this could have been a subtle political comment, but whoosh, I don't get it... I gave it a pic I took of an F22 in a 9g turn (in afterburner) and it returned "afterburner" - surprised me that it ID'ed the aircraft's propulsion…

I'll check in occasionally to see how it's doing in its ascent to sentience.

Turing Test: Pair it up with a chat-bot algorithm on Skype and see if it can start conversations with random users based on their home decor. "Nice red leather couch you've got there."

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by rhodin »

tormeh wrote: post #13
noreasonw wrote: post #10

R, Python and open software applications are going to be a very fierce contender in machine learning, image recognition, data mining and statistics. I wonder if close source is going to compete with the 5000 packages available in R and in the future more and more people are going to be able to improve on the shoulder of giants.

Well, the philosophy for the Wolfram language is different. Basically, their approach seems to be "put everything imaginable in the standard library", which is kinda awesome, actually. Should be more coherent and discoverable.

Discoverability of functionality in the system, and common ways to put things together, is an important topic. We (I'm an employee) are constantly improving our documentation system to make it easier to see what's there. With over a hundred thousand examples there's a lot of ground covered but more initiatives in this area are rolling out.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by cromwellian »

I hate to be negative, but I found the announcement post suspiciously devoid of any acknowledgement of the huge work that has been done in this field over the last few years. Wolfram's post seems to be written in the tone as if he's suddenly discovered a way to do this, when it's old hat. No mention of the results and ILSVRC (Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge) contests held every year. Or ImageNet and all of the associated projects.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by seanp2k2 »

cromwellian wrote: post #33

I hate to be negative, but I found the announcement post suspiciously devoid of any acknowledgement of the huge work that has been done in this field over the last few years. Wolfram's post seems to be written in the tone as if he's suddenly discovered a way to do this, when it's old hat. No mention of the results and ILSVRC (Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge) contests held every year. Or ImageNet and all of t…

Here's a [biased] bit on Wolfram, the person: http://chem.tufts.edu/science/Shermer/E-Skeptic/SkepticsOnWo...

TL;DR [quote] Although it is clear that Wolfram is no crank, not someone skeptics would label a pseudoscientist, skeptics will notice that, despite his flawless credentials, staggering intelligence, and depth of knowledge, Wolfram possesses many attributes of a pseudoscientist: (1) he makes grandiose claims, (2) works in isolation, (3) did not go through the normal peer-review process, (4) published his own book, (5) does not adequately acknowledge his predecessors, and (6) rejects a well-established theory of at least one famous scientist. [/quote]

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by Flimm »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #20

You know the old saying "can't see the forest for the trees?" [1] [2] 1: https://www.google.com/search?q=can%27t+see+the+forest+for+t... 2: https://www.imageidentify.com/result/1whslg106cfcp

It supposed to identify one item, so the fact that it got "tree" seems to be a correct response to me.

Re: The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project

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Post by jgalt212 »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #34
cromwellian wrote: post #33

I hate to be negative, but I found the announcement post suspiciously devoid of any acknowledgement of the huge work that has been done in this field over the last few years. Wolfram's post seems to be written in the tone as if he's suddenly discovered a way to do this, when it's old hat. No mention of the results and ILSVRC (Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge) contests held every year. Or ImageNet and all of t…

Here's a [biased] bit on Wolfram, the person: http://chem.tufts.edu/science/Shermer/E-Skeptic/SkepticsOnWo... TL;DR [quote] Although it is clear that Wolfram is no crank, not someone skeptics would label a pseudoscientist, skeptics will notice that, despite his flawless credentials, staggering intelligence, and depth of knowledge, Wolfram possesses many attributes of a pseudoscientist: (1) he makes grandiose claims,…

While not applicable for this post, I really like: > (5) does not adequately acknowledge his predecessors

as a huge indicator of PR-driven news article rather than a news-driven news article.

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