Microsoft’s New Image Captioning AI is More Accurate than Humans

guest · Oct 14, 2020

Microsoft’s New Image Captioning AI is More Accurate than Humans
October 14, 2020
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AI researchers at Microsoft reached a major milestone this week: they managed to create a new “artificial intelligence system” that is, in many cases, actually better than a human at describing the contents of a photo. This could be a huge boon for blind and sight-impaired individuals who rely on screen readers and “alt text” when viewing images online.

While this might seem like one part of the prequel to Skynet, the development of a better image captioning AI has a lot of potential benefits, and warrants a bit of (cautious) celebration.

As Microsoft explains on its blog: “[this] breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone in Microsoft’s push to make its products and services inclusive and accessible to all users.”
That’s because accurate automatic image captioning is used widely to create so-called “alt text” for images on the Internet— [...]
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“So, there are several apps that use image captioning as way to fill in alt text when it’s missing.”
These apps can take advantage of the new system to generate accurate captions that “surpass human performance,” a claim that’s based on the nocaps image captioning benchmark that compares AI performance against the same data set captioned by humans.
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To learn more about this system and how it works, head over to the Microsoft blog or read up on the nitty gritty details here.
(via Engadget)
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