Shutterstock now uses machine learning to help you find just the right photo — from thenextweb.com by Napier Lopez
Excerpt:
Shutterstock [launched on March 10, 2016] a couple of tools that will make it easy for users to find photos without having to figure out the right keywords for what they’re looking for: reverse image search and visually similar search.
It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. With reverse image search, you can upload an image that you like via the search bar and the site will pull up a collection of images that have a similar aesthetic.
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Both features make use of a custom-built deep learning convolutional neural network, which is a fancy way of saying it uses advanced AI, similar to the technology behind Google’s DeepMind.
From DSC:
Some of the uses of AI I’m comfortable with…and I guess I’m ok with this scenario. But I don’t want AI to paint a picture for me, or write a poem for me, or write me a song, or relay a subset of programmers’ view of emotions, etc. What we do with AI remains to be seen. But we need to start engaging in deeper discussions about what we want our futures to look like — and, as Ed Cornish comments below, that we make sure that we are working to create dreams, not nightmares:
We can do nothing to change the past, but we have enormous power to shape the future. Once we grasp that essential insight, we recognize our responsibility and capability for building our dreams of tomorrow and avoiding our nightmares.
–Edward Cornish
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Also see:
- The Current State of Artificial Intelligence, According to Nvidia’s CEO — from fortune.com by Andrew Nusca
Nvidia sees a lot of opportunities in an area of AI called “deep learning’
where a system learns by itself including recognizing images.
2015 was a big year. Artificial intelligence is moving into the commercial world.
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Last year AI went from research concept to engineering application. And all these engineers at Facebook and Google and others are taking this deep learning concept with all these frameworks, which is basically another word for tools, and turning these ideas into things of practical use. And now you’re seeing all these Internet companies announcing these practical uses. All of the industries are just exploding.