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Microsoft says its AI can describe images ‘as well as people do’ – Engadget
Microsoft’s AI can now caption images even better than humans.

It’s not unusual to see companies tout their AI research innovations, but it’s far rarer for those discoveries to be quickly deployed to shipping products. Xuedong Huang, CTO of Azure AI cognitive services, pushed to integrate it into Azure quickly because of the potential benefits for users. His team trained the model with images tagged with specific keywords, which helped give it a visual language most AI frameworks don’t have. Typically, these sorts of models are trained with images and full …
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