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Google Turns To Users To Improve Its AI Chops Outside the US (wired.com)

Google is betting that algorithms that understand images and text will draw business to its cloud services, make augmented reality popular, and prompt us to search using our smartphone cameras. From a report: The search company's machine learning systems work best on material from a few rich parts of the world, like the US. They stumble more frequently on data from less affluent countries -- particularly emerging economies like India that Google is counting on to maintain its growth. "We have a very sparse training data set from parts of the world that are not the United States and Western Europe," says Anurag Batra, a researcher at Google.

When Batra travels to his native Delhi, he says Google's AI systems become less smart. Now, he leads a project trying to change that. "We can understand pasta very well, but if you ask about pesarattu dosa, or anything from Korea or Vietnam, we're not very good," Batra says. To fix the problem, Batra is tapping the brains and phones of some of Google's billions of users. His team built an app called Crowdsource that asks people to perform quick tasks like checking the accuracy of Google's image-recognition and translation algorithms. Starting this week, the Crowdsource app also asks users to take and upload photos of nearby objects.

24 comments

  1. AI: pretty dumb outside its very narrow bubble by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 2

    Yes, AI gets pretty dumb when it sees stuff that's even slightly different than what it's used to. It adds sheep to pictures if it sees a pasture: https://www.theguardian.com/te...

    Or, any yellow and black image must be a school bus: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...

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    1. Re:AI: pretty dumb outside its very narrow bubble by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 1

      Oops, wrong link. I meant this one http://aiweirdness.com/post/17...
      (discussed on /. earlier: https://slashdot.org/story/18/...)

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    2. Re:AI: pretty dumb outside its very narrow bubble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's very much like Trump in that respect, to note another incomplete intellect.

    3. Re:AI: pretty dumb outside its very narrow bubble by SinGunner · · Score: 1

      Man, AI must suck... says the guy who posts the wrong link to an article because it looks roughly similar to the AI article he was talking about...

      Stovetop kettle calling the electric kettle...

  2. Thanks for the revenue stream, Google! by Grokko · · Score: 1

    I think I'll test my emergent AI on Google by pretending to be in the third world via VPN, then performing these tasks by randomly clicking yes / no / can't tell / looks like a potato.

    It will probably earn more money than bothering to mine the ever more elusive bitcoin.

  3. AI on the cheap, it seems. by H3lldr0p · · Score: 2

    Batra is tapping the brains and phones of some of Google's billions of users. His team built an app called Crowdsource that asks people to perform quick tasks like checking the accuracy of Google's image-recognition and translation algorithms. Starting this week, the Crowdsource app also asks users to take and upload photos of nearby objects. ...
    Google isnâ(TM)t offering to share that potential bounty with people contributing data to Crowdsource. The app rewards contributors with a system of points, badges, and certificates. Collect enough and youâ(TM)ll be invited to join online chats with other top contributors via Googleâ(TM)s Hangouts service.

    Hey. Look at that. American ingenuity at it's finest. Get the people to work for free or as close to it as you can. I can see the pitch now!

    "The wisdom of the crowds at your fingertips, free to us but let me talk to you about the down payment you need to engage the greatest engineering feet designed by man. Hopefully you've not already a second mortgage on that house, my friend, your small business is going to need what we can do for you. Without it, you'll never see the top of the search heap. Nosiree. You'll. Never. See. The. Top."

    1. Re: AI on the cheap, it seems. by javaman235 · · Score: 1

      If you think about Facebook's play for China, the subsequent rejection with China building its own and all that has followed, you'll realize that India's position. Note the Indian born CEOs at Microsoft and Google (we're a team india!) What it all shows is the big brains are betting big on 'crowd sourcing' like this.

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      -The art of programming is the pursuit of absolute simplicity.
  4. Trumperminator. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Artificial Intelligence is trying to match to Natural Intelligence for a success.

    Later, this same AI will be cloned to various intelligent and autonomous robots for a quantity of a billion of robotic units.

    To make Intelligent America First, later them.

    A billion of programmers is enough to polish the One Artificial Intelligence's algorithms and heuristics.

    1. Re:Trumperminator. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I for one welcome our new I.T. closet cleaner cloned overlord.

  5. Targeted Trolling Prevention by alvinrod · · Score: 2

    I'm curious as to how Google plans to prevent trolling on the part of people like 4chan that just love to abuse AI systems. I can easily see someone uploading photos of dicks in response to every photo request or adding racist translations among other mischief.

    1. Re:Targeted Trolling Prevention by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      SJW, a lot of SJW looking over every part of the network.
      Everything online will face selective enforcement.

      --
      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    2. Re:Targeted Trolling Prevention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sometimes I think some people on Slashdot are over trained AI that respond with the term 'SJW' given any input.

  6. Not rich enough, Zuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I'll work for you for free. NOT!

  7. Genitals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google's AI might become very good at detecting human genitals by the time they shutter this project.

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  10. Google prove once again beyond doubt that I.Q. is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So nice to have free labor and free data (that Google will likely profit like kings from). All this tells me is that Google will never truly understand what constitutes intelligence, and that people the world over are still gullible in the extreme. P.T. Barnum wishes he had it so good.

  11. Cool! by dohzer · · Score: 1

    Cool. What's an AI Chop?

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