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News Wolfram launches Image Identification tool

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Staff Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gareth Halfacree, 14 May 2015
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  2. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    Apparently the picture used in this news article is a dialog box :)
    And Gareth's avatar is a basketball backboard.
     
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    AlexB Web Nerd and WC Addict

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    My classic mini is a sport utility vehicle, an audi le mans car is a 'device' and my office (externally) is a shed.
     
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    Delicious instrumentation
     
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    The sample image of the Mountain Bike Disc Brake comes back as Bike Chain....


    great testing Wolfram!
     
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  6. Maki role

    Maki role Dale you're on a roll... Staff

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    It'll be interesting to see how accurate this thing is in maybe a year or two after people have had enough time to play around with it.
     
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    I was going to leave a comment questioning if it'd be able to read a message in a stenograph image but reading the comments it has enough problems reading real life.
     
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    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    A gas ring :lol:
     
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  9. wolfticket

    wolfticket Downwind from the bloodhounds

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    Funny. I put everyone above's avatars in and I got "first against the wall when the revolution comes".
     
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    Curiously, a version of Wolfram Alpha that fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the avatars as "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." :D

    If it's AI, is it learning AI? Will it get better over time, and is there a way to correct it - or will it always get pictures of graphics cards wrong?
     
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  11. Maki role

    Maki role Dale you're on a roll... Staff

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    I've just remembered, how does this differ to Google's approach? When you reverse image search it also attempts to describe the picture, it usually does quite a good job too. Putting in that graphics card got the wrong result, but it was fairly close, called it an "EVGA GTX 660". Similarly, putting in a picture of Loramentum brings up the description "wall mounted computer", pretty impressive if you ask me.
     
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