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

Posted by msmash on Friday February 3, 2017 @04:40AM 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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Re:Still Not AI by AmiMoJo · 2017-02-03 04:55 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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