Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
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Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#2Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement will find some use in this, but most people won't. Or at least, any utility beyond "Oh, remember that time I took a picture with that weird dog in it?"
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#3Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement will find some use in this, but most people won't. Or at least, any utility beyond "Oh, remember that time I took a picture with that weird dog in it?"
Your power of imagination is truly inspirational.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#4Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement will find some use in this, but most people won't. Or at least, any utility beyond "Oh, remember that time I took a picture with that weird dog in it?"
Your power of imagination is truly inspirational.
I take it you haven't actually tried to put Facebook search to practical use. I used to run a nonprofit for combat veterans (since killed by California's AMT on all businesses including nonprofits) and used to pick up new candidates through word of mouth. I would then have to find these people often by name only. Facebook's graph search used to be okay for this purpose, but they've completely neutered all the utility out of their search over the years.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#5now i know why facebook has been doin this. http://i.imgur.com/zPapJHM.png
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#6Thinking of just how difficult this is, I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/1425/.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#7I don't see how this is unlocking anything. Google has been doing the same for the past 5 years.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#8Google photos does this. I just opened Google photos and searched for "food" and aside from a couple pictures of some jack o lanterns (which are arguable, but I don't know anybody who eats theirs on Nov 1st), the results were spot on.
"Unlocks" might not be the right word here.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#9now i know why facebook has been doin this. http://i.imgur.com/zPapJHM.png
I believe that was for accessibility reasons, ie screen readers.
Re: Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
#10Facebook's search is not useful. It's (obviously) segmented based on your own network, and generally useless for practical purposes. Perhaps law enforcement will find some use in this, but most people won't. Or at least, any utility beyond "Oh, remember that time I took a picture with that weird dog in it?"
Your power of imagination is truly inspirational.
He's talking about its current public potential, not idealized potential.
For example go on facebook and use the search and tell me one interesing use case.