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A couple months back, Microsoft introduced a ‘Custom Vision’ program to the public, which allowed anybody to design their own AI way easier than before. And with almost limitless potential, Geoff Boeing has decided to use the tech to create a City Describer.
This personal project by a Ph.D. candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, is basically an AI-architecture curator that can describe photos of cities. Now it has been turned into a Twitter channel where Geoff shows off the best and worst guesses by the AI, with the latter ones being especially hilarious.
Boeing uses images from Reddit’s ‘CityPorn’ community and feeds them to the program which, at least in theory, should learn and adapt to make more accurate guesses in the future.
More info: City Describer (h/t: designtaxi)
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M O'Connell 8 years ago
It kind-of reminds me of the original SimCity. Pretend you could have zoomed out.
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M O'Connell 8 years ago
Devouring religious officials? That's a little dark... even for Microsoft!
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M O'Connell 8 years ago
Who knows, maybe this started out as a gigapixel image and they're actually right.
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Evie Heaven 8 years ago
Got the beach part correct. And group of people is on it... in the buildings.
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earringnut 8 years ago
even a human has to admit the short square building does look like a chip of some kind.
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Maria Beilschmidt 8 years ago
There is a ship mid pic, left hand side in the shadows with the bridge .... so, technically correct
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DE Ray 8 years ago
If you listen closely, you can hear them. "I walk along the avenue, I never thought I'd meet a girl like you, oo-oo..."
Mistrz Varflock 8 years ago
"A flock of seagulls next to a body..." Wait, what? "...of water." Ah, ok.
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M O'Connell 8 years ago
Looking at a zoomed long-exposure, I'm surprised it got any of it right.
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adoracat 8 years ago
There's mountains in the FAR distance, so TECHNICALLY...
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Mini Shnauzer 5 years ago
It does look like brick if you don't look too closely . . .
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earringnut 8 years ago
if that's the space needle then that would be a large body of water with a mountain in the background
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Zori the degu 8 years ago
Well, the Al can't identify anything, so I'm not even mildly surprised. It mistook me for a flower once.
Shelp 5 years ago
This comment is actually way funnier than the whole post
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M O'Connell 8 years ago
Would the AI be smart enough to identify famous photographs? Times Square in the Rain, for instance? Stoumen-59...e29aa3.jpg 
Zori the degu 8 years ago
Well, the Al can't identify anything, so I'm not even mildly surprised. It mistook me for a flower once.
Shelp 5 years ago
This comment is actually way funnier than the whole post
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Would the AI be smart enough to identify famous photographs? Times Square in the Rain, for instance? Stoumen-59...e29aa3.jpg
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