Microsoft trains machine to answer, 'What's that animal in your basket?' ZDNet

Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them. Microsoft's latest effort in developing the tools for artificial intelligence focus on the field of so-called'image-question answering', which aims to automatically answer natural-language questions about the content of a given image. 'Building AI is like launching a rocket': Meet the man fighting to stop artificial intelligence destroying humanity Skype's co-founder wants to keep humankind safe from the existential threats of artificial intelligence. That's easier than it sounds, even for a seemingly simple image of a dog sitting in a bike basket. To answer the question, 'What's sitting in the basket on a bicycle?' requires multi-step reasoning, the researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research noted.