Sunday, 17th May 2015

Wolfram Launches Image Identification Project

By Africa S. Hands

From Stephen Wolfram blog:

We’re launching the Wolfram Language Image Identification Project on the web to let anyone easily take any picture (drag it from a web page, snap it on your phone, or load it from a file) and see what ImageIdentify thinks it is.

It won’t always get it right, but most of the time I think it does remarkably well. And to me what’s particularly fascinating is that when it does get something wrong, the mistakes it makes mostly seem remarkably human.

It’s a nice practical example of artificial intelligence.

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