Coming up with a caption for your selfie can be a time-consuming task. After all, finding the right balance of wit and humor isn’t always easy. Enter CaptionBot — Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence project, which utilizes computer vision and language to analyze images and come up with a caption. When needed, it can even include an emoji.
To use the bot, users select an image, upload it to the website, and after a few seconds the bot will provide a description. Not only that, since the bot can distinguish gender, celebrities and facial expressions, it will also tell you — in percentages — how similar you are in appearance to someone famous.
CaptionBot offers the chance to provide feedback at the very end so users can answer a five star rating system so the bot can learn how to improve.
Microsoft unveiled its AI chatbot on Twitter two weeks ago and the internet managed to corrupt it in under 24 hours. Named Tay, the bot is an experiment in “conversational understanding,” according to the company, as Tay evolves as users interact with it. Upon its launch, the internet did what it does best: destroyed the innocence of Tay. Users on Twitter sent Tay racist and misogynistic comments that helped Tay become a prejudiced bot that repeated these sentiments.
