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Scientists will soon prove
that Artificial Intelligence
may be able to embody the
saying “A picture is worth a
thousand words,” because
now, they are teaching
programs to tell a story
based entirely from pictures.
According to the researchers,
computers will soon be able
to explain what is happening
in videos, just like people do.
Scientists at Microsoft
Research
with
their
colleagues are developing
a
system
that
can
automatically
describe
images just like a person
would tell a story. Their
objective is not only to let
the system enumerate the
objects in the picture, but to
explain what is happening
in the photo and how it can
make a person feel. In other
words, they are giving the AI
storytelling capabilities.
For example, if a person is
shown a picture of a man in
a tuxedo and a woman in a
long, white dress, instead of
saying. “Bride and groom,”
they would say “My best
friend got married. They look
happy, and it was a beautiful
wedding.”
According to study senior
author Margaret Mitchell,
a computer scientist at
Microsoft Research, "The
goal is to help give AIs more
human-like intelligence, to
help it understand things on
a more abstract level — what
it means to be fun or creepy
or weird or interesting.”
JULY 2016
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