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Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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"I seem to be under the weather right now. Try again later :(" i.e. we killed it.

That's disapointing. But it worked once and did very well. I sent this picture http://www.sofoot.com/IMG/img-le-regard-perdu-1460478703_580... and it said "I think it is a football player on the field and he looks :(". He didn't mistake the football player with a rugby player, a cricket player or else. And +1 for the emoji

I uploaded a photograph of a bunch of snow piled on top of a round table[0], which looks a lot like a marshmallow to the human eye. But it came back with "I am not really confident, but I think it looks like a polar bear lying in the snow." Not terrible :)

[0] http://imgur.com/nKRK5hc

Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.cloudsightapi.com/api is crazy accurate, it gives "galleon above sea monster painting".

Most likely because they use mechanical turk (people) as per this reddit discussion :) https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/356e76/ask...

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Re: CaptionBot by Microsoft

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Hmm. A couple of days ago I think there was a post about Google doing a lot of development and research around creating systems that understand / categorize / comment / recognize images. One thing I took away from reading about it is that Google has billions of images to train it with from all their different ventures. Does Microsoft have access to anywhere near the same numbers of pictures?

Microsoft owns Corbis, doesn't it? http://www.corbisimages.com
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