Microsoft's New AI System Describes Images Better Than Humans

Microsoft has created an AI system that's so good at describing images, it can do so even better than humans. The recent model is also apparently twice as better as the company's image captioning model it's been using since 2015. What's more, Microsoft hasn't only created this useful AI system, it's also going to share it publicly as part of Azure's Cognitive Services, which means that any developer can use it in their apps. Microsoft's app for blind and visually impaired people, Seeing AI, has already launched the new AI system. Seeing AI assists the blind and visually impaired by narrating the world around them.