Microsoft trains machine to answer, ‘What’s that animal in your basket?’

Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.

Microsoft’s latest effort in developing the tools for artificial intelligence focus on the field of so-called ‘image-question answering’, which aims to automatically answer natural-language questions about the content of a given image. [1]

[1] By Liam Tung for ZDNet

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