CaptionBot is Microsoft's latest AI experiment - and at least it isn't racist

After the difficulties experienced by Twitter bot Tay, the new service is providing amusement while learning how to automatically caption images

After the somewhat awkward experience last month of having an AI Twitter bot go full-on racist in a few hours once it interacted with humans, Microsoft have released a new AI experiment on to the internet - CaptionBot.

The idea is that you upload a photo to the service, and it tries to automatically generate a caption that describes what the algorithm sees. You are then able to rate how accurately it has detected what was on display. It learns from the rating, and in theory, the captions get better.

Microsoft's image captioning tool sees through the so-called "moon landings" https://t.co/WWr7O1XeE3 H/T @robmanuel http://pic.twitter.com/BDd9X4KdNp

I was hoping to get a definite answer from https://t.co/b5DYRwRxWz but it's raised a lot more questions http://pic.twitter.com/WVz4gC9kLi

A mixture of amazing, complementary and wrong from https://t.co/zMWockgew4 :-) Really great work @Microsoft http://pic.twitter.com/AfNTfJzhuf

Lol. https://t.co/CcyyDR1Vus #startrek http://pic.twitter.com/bIiZ1cxQYW

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