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 another 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 not forgive such transgressions.

In one example, Captionbot mistakes the First Lady Michelle Obama for a cellphone. In another, 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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