Google's AI can now caption images almost as well as humans

Google's image captioning software is part of its wider TensorFlow machine learning kit. Today, it announced a new release of the algorithm that comes with substantially improved performance. It is able to make more accurate descriptions that include more detail, enabling it to caption images with a standard as high as humans. In a blog post, Google provided some examples of images captioned by the new algorithm. They include "A person on a beach flying a kite" and "A man riding a wave on top of a surfboard."