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9 Great Sites Where You Can Explore the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificially intelligence is now making its way into every aspect of your digital lives. While most companies cannot stop talking about what they've done in the field, there are a host of cutting-edge AI-powered websites that are useful for everyday tasks today. Here are several awesome and insightful artificial intelligence sites you probably don't know about. PixelDrive is a cloud storage platform which employs a set of machine learning algorithms What Are Machine Learning Algorithms? Here's How They Work What Are Machine Learning Algorithms?


Google and Apple go head to head with smart photo assistants

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If you're like many people, you have thousands of photos on your phone, long forgotten after you've posted a few on Instagram or Facebook. Apple and Google are both applying a form of artificial intelligence called'machine learning' to organize your pictures and video -- and along the way, help you rediscover last year's vacation, dinner with close friends and a casual summer outing to the park. This image shows a Google collage generated by machine using images taken on Sept. 13, 2016, in New York, of Binu Paulose playing with a dog. Apple and Google are both applying machine learning to organize your pictures and video. Apple's tools are part of last month's iOS 10 system update for iPhones and iPads.


Google's 'Show and Tell' AI can tell you what's in a photo with nearly 94% accuracy

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Artificial intelligence systems have recently begun to try their hand at writing picture captions, often producing hilarious, and even offensive, blunders. But, Google's Show and Tell algorithm has almost perfected the craft. According to the firm, the AI can now describe images with nearly 94 percent accuracy and may even'understand' the context and deeper meaning of a scene. According to the firm, Google's AI can now describe images with nearly 94 percent accuracy and may even'understand' the context and deeper meaning of a scene. Google has released the open-source code for its image captioning system, allowing developers to take part, the firm revealed on its research blog.


Microsoft's New AI Mistakenly Identifies Photos, Ignores Hitler

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An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's newest online AI, CaptionBot, tries to identify what's in an uploaded photo, using two recognition APIs recently released by Microsoft Cognitive Services for app developersโ€“ "Computer Vision" and "Emotion". But while Microsoft brags that their AI "can understand thousands of objects, as well as the relationships between them," bloggers are also sharing funny examples of CaptionBot's many mistakes. While it correctly identified Bea Arthur, Ozzy Osbourne and Joan Jett, and a movie poster with Arnold Schwarzenegger, it mistakenly identified Gene Simmons of KISS as "a woman in a red jacketโ€ฆsitting on a motorcycle," described a wedding dress as "a cat wearing a tie," mistook Michelle Obama for a cellphone, and described one man's Twitter avatar as "a close up of two giraffes near a tree." But CNNMoney reports that the AI is apparently programmed to ignore all images of Hitler and other Nazi symbolism (as well as Osama bin Laden), reporting that Microsoft's AI "often came back with'I really can't describe the picture' and a confused emoji. It did, however, identify other Nazi leaders like Joseph Mengele and Joseph Goebbels."


City University London experts warn us to not let chatbots take over our lives

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Artificially intelligent machines are no longer confined to science fiction novels but are an accepted part of everyday life. While we frequently interact with chatbots, such as Siri, there is now a serious push to make these computer-based'personalities' more trustworthy and likable. Simone Stumpf, senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at City University London, believes the key may actually be to make them less human. Microsoft wants to join the rest of the software giants in the AI game, but it just keeps striking out. Weeks ago the firm's lovable teen chatbot turned into a Hitler supporting racists and its most recent attempt, CaptionBot hasn't lived up to its potential either.


Machine Learning at Build 2016

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For a machine learning junkie like me, there was lots to love at Build 2016! In this post, I'll fill you in on the machine learning announcements from Build. In summary, we announced previews of the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) for adding intelligence to your applications. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows you to build intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally in writing, using text/SMS, Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail, and other popular services. During the keynote, they showed an example Domino's Pizza bot which you could talk to (actually, type to) in natural language to order a pizza.


Microsoft builds new AI bot to ignore Hitler

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The company's latest program can describe what it "sees" in photos. "CaptionBot," as it's called, does a pretty decent job at describing simple everyday scenes, such as a person sitting on a couch, a cat lounging around, or a busy restaurant. But it seems to be programmed to ignore pictures of Nazi symbolism or its leader. CNNMoney gave CaptionBot several photos of Adolf Hitler and variations of the swastika to analyze, and it often came back with "I really can't describe the picture" and a confused emoji. It did, however, identify other Nazi leaders like Joseph Mengele and Joseph Goebbels.


Microsoft's next AI experiment: 'CaptionBot' identifies images Netimperative - latest digital marketing news

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Microsoft has unleashed another AI experiment on the web, this time hoping for better results than its rogue Tay Twitter bot. The company launched CaptionBot.ai, which can analyse a photo in seconds and describe it. Powered by Microsoft's Cognitive Services, the bot looks over any images and gives rudimentary descriptions of what it can see using a Computer Vision API, an Emotion API and a Bing Image API. This is the same base software Microsoft has used for its How Old Do I Look? system. To actually create the captions, this system has been coupled with the language system from Tay, Microsoft's attempt at a chat bot that was shut down after a vulnerability led to it tweeting racist and sexist remarks.


Moth to the flame: Microsoft has another AI chat bot, called Captionbot

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You'd think that after its last AI chat bot fiasco, Microsoft would've learned its lesson -- or at least waited a bit longer before introducing another monster to the world. Luckily for us, history has a tendency to repeat itself, and the company's latest creation is a sometimes hilarious entity known as Captionbot. The premise is simple -- recognize the contents of a photo, and come up with an appropriate caption. But alas, while the concept may be straightforward, the execution isn't always so cut and dry. And social media has been quick to point out all of Captionbot's faux pas.


Microsoft AI CaptionBot Figures Out What's Going On In Your Photos (Most Of The Time)

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Microsoft recently launched an online tool called CaptionBot that tries to describe what's going on in your photos. We took it for a spin and it's quite impressive, albeit not always accurate, so here's the deal. Microsoft launched a new online tool called CaptionBot that leverages AI to try and figure out what's going on in your photos. The whole process is pretty straightforward. You upload an image of your choice and let the Microsoft CaptionBot analyze it, after which it comes up with a description of the image. It's worth pointing out, however, that the CaptionBot will hold on to any image you submit so it can use it to improve its accuracy.