Google's AI is getting really good at captioning photos

Google's open-source code release uses its third-gen "Inception" model and a new vision system that's better at picking out individual objects in a shot. "For example, an image classification model will tell you that a dog, grass and a frisbee are in the image, but a natural description should also tell you the color of the grass and how the dog relates to the frisbee," the team wrote. After it was trained using human captions, Google's system was able to describe images it hasn't seen before. "Excitingly, our model does indeed develop the ability to generate accurate new captions when presented with completely new scenes, indicating a deeper understanding of the objects and context in the images," the researchers say. Using several photos of dogs on beach (above), for instance, it was able to generate a caption for a similar, but slightly different scene.