Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone (vice.com)

New submitter bumblebaetuna shares a report from Motherboard: It's already well known that iOS 11 included some advanced updates to the phone's artificial intelligence, and this includes improving the photo app's ability to identify and categorize what is in each of your photos. There are thousands of objects the phone can identify, ranging from "abacus" to "zucchini." Weirdly, despite not having categories for, say, "nude," or "underwear," there are multiple categories for bra: brassiere, bandeau, bandeaus, bra, bras, and brassieres. Searching for this folder in your photos app may reveal an unexpected surprise. Though there are some pretty archaic terms like "homburg," "habiliment," and "danseuse," the "bra" category is unusual compared to the other quotidian labels the app slaps on your photos, and is as risque as the terms get.

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Maybe Apple has a dirty mind

[hyades1]

"Danseuse", mentioned in the summary and TFA, is French for a ballet dancer. Also, sometimes, a lady of negotiable virtue.

Re:Vibrating Fingers... Bra Pics...

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL @ "zucchini".

It's called a courgette, you uneducated Americans.

Well, no, not generally

[fyngyrz]

a bra doesn't reveal any more than any bikini top does.

I suspect you're just not very familiar with nice bras. There are other interesting variations on bra design as well. Many of them are quite sensual. Go to google, make sure the nanny safe search is off, enter "transparent lace bra" as the search term, and then click on "Images."

Very few sightings of bikinis will look like that.

And then there are the metal / chain bras. Kill the safesearch, use "chain bra OR bralette", search, the click images.

You can search "cupless bra" as well for something a bit different.

There are definitely some interesting looks out there that leave most bikinis in the dust.

If you're really lucky, you'll hook up with someone who knows to wear them, too. :)

Re:Google do just that since 2 last years

[AmiMoJo]

Google does not use end-to-end encryption in storing your data.

They do. I suspect you don't know what end-to-end encryption is. It just means that the connection between the two endpoints is encrypted, and they do use that (HTTPS) when storing your photos in the cloud if you enabled cloud sync.

Also, the image recognition features are done on the phone. They do additional stuff in the cloud like the collages and auto-photoshopping, but the image recognition stuff works just fine without cloud sync enabled. Same with Google Translate (with databases downloaded for offline operation). I have not tested Lens in airplane mode yet.

The "AI" chip in the Pixel 2 is nothing of the sort. It's an image processing accelerator, a parallel DSP processor suited to image manipulation tasks.