Microsoft created a bot to auto-caption photos and it's going hilariously wrong
 

Microsoft created a bot to auto-caption photos and it's going hilariously wrong
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Mere weeks after Microsoft had to shut down its Tay chatbot for sending offensive tweets, the company might be in for a**ther AI-related embarrassment.*

This time, the culprit is Captionbot, an AI experiment that tries to recognize what's on a photo and come up with a text caption. Launched in late March, Captionbot actually does a pretty good job in many examples, but it's also horridly wrong in others, and social media does **t forgive such transgressions.

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In one example, Captionbot mistakes the First Lady Michelle Obama for a cellphone. In a**ther, it thinks the famous blue/black/white/gold dress is a cat wearing a tie (or a suitcase, see image above).* Read more...


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