{"id":2675,"date":"2016-04-14T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/microsoft-created-a-bot-to-auto-caption-photos-and-its-going-hilariously-wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:22:19","slug":"microsoft-created-a-bot-to-auto-caption-photos-and-its-going-hilariously-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/microsoft-created-a-bot-to-auto-caption-photos-and-its-going-hilariously-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft created a bot to auto-caption photos and it's going hilariously wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mere weeks after Microsoft had to shut down its Tay chatbot<\/a> for sending offensive tweets, the company might be in for another AI-related embarrassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This time, the culprit is Captionbot<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Microsoft wants you to love its bots<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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).\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Twitter<\/a>, Social Media<\/a>, Captionbot<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, and Watercooler<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 This time, the culprit is Captionbot, an AI experiment that tries to recognize what’s on a … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1882,1211,783,16,735],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-captionbot","tag-microsoft","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}