MIT's Picture Language Lets Computers Recognize Faces Through Inference

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @07:53AM from the your-face-can-run,-but-it-can't-hide dept.

itwbennett writes: MIT researchers are working on a new programming language called Picture, which could radically reduce the amount of coding needed to help computers recognize objects in images and video. It is a prototype of how a relatively novel form of programming, called probabilistic programming, could reduce the amount of code needed for such complex tasks. In one test of the new language, the researchers were able to cut thousands of lines of code in one image recognition program down to fewer than 50.

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Line Count is Misleading by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-14 08:03 · Score: 3, Insightful

"...the researchers were able to cut thousands of lines of code in one image recognition program down to fewer than 50."
How many lines of code were used to write the MIT Picture language? The article summary claims to have replaced thousands of lines of code in an existing application yet do not mention the line count of the Picture language.