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Tag Images With Your Mind
blee37 writes "Researchers at Microsoft have invented a system for tagging images by reading brain scans from an electroencephalograph (EEG). Tagging images is an important task because many images on the web are unlabeled and have no semantic information. This new method allows an appropriate tag to be generated by an AI algorithm interpreting the EEG scan of a person's brain while they view an image. The person need only view the image for as little as 500 ms. Other current methods for generating tags include flat out paying people to do it manually, putting the task on Amazon Mechanical Turk, or using Google Image Labeler."
Honestly this is nice, but seriously if my mind was tagging my images there would be something like the following list of tags
idhitit, awesome,ohgod, thehelliswrongwithme, whydidisavethisagain, ohthatswhy, shit, wallpaper, and photoshop
and that's just keeping it within PG-13.
No really what can go wrong with using your inconscient animal nature to tag every photo with a (decent) girl in bikini as "To Do"
My Steve Ballmer pictures keep coming up as "best used as cat food"
Just don't let Rorschach tag any images of ink blot tests.
Summation 2
Microsoft, be warned. Some people have a limited scope in terms of what they are thinking about at any given time.
More importantly, what are they stating at goats?