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Facebook's AI Unlocks the Ability To Search Photos By What's in Them (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the sounds-creepy dept.

An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform is now powering image content search for all users. This means you can now search for images on Facebook with keywords that describe the contents of a photo, rather than being limited by tags and captions. To accomplish the task, Facebook trained an ever-fashionable deep neural network on tens of millions of photos. Facebook's fortunate in this respect because its platform is already host to billions of captioned images. The model essentially matches search descriptors to features pulled from photos with some degree of probability.

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  1. Still Not AI by Luthair · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry, but this is still not AI.

    1. Re:Still Not AI by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There is NO formal agreed-upon definition of AI and experts, philosophers, and pundits argue forever and ever over it. Givvittup.

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      Table-ized A.I.
    2. Re:Still Not AI by e3m4n · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Probably a good thing it's not too intelligent. Can you imagine if google was a person, the kind of sanity destroying crap it would have to deal with? Facebook's poor AI will be bombarded by dubious requests.

      My opinion of the average Facebook user is about as high as my opinion of people on AOL back in the 90s. If it were a full fledged AI there is no doubt that the assumption it drew from its average sampling of humans would definitely make it go SkyNet on all of us.