This AI-Powered Robot Can Find Waldo Instantly

Creative agency Redpepper made a AI-powered robot that can pinpoint Waldo in 4.45 seconds ("better than most five year olds," according to Redpepper). The robot is complete with a rubber hand that points to Waldo on the page. The agency used Google's AutoML Vision service to train AI on photos of Waldo. The drag-and-drop tool allows users to train AI tools without previous coding knowledge, and has been used to categorize anything from ramen based on the shops they came from to the types of attire carried in an online retailer. Matt Reed, a Creative Technologist at Redpepper who led the project, got 62 Waldo heads and 45 full-body Waldos from Google image search, then fed the data Google's AutoML Vision.