Wolfram builds image-identifying artificial intelligence website

Victor Barreiro Jr.

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Wolfram builds image-identifying artificial intelligence website
The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project will attempt to identify the subject of an image, and will also provide data on that subject via its associated Wolfram Alpha information entry

MANILA, Philippines – Wolfram Research announced Wednesday, May 13, that it was expanding the Wolfram programing language to allow it to identify objects in images.

It also launched a website – Image Identify – that would allow people to take a picture and have it identified by the new tool, a function of the Wolfram language called ImageIdentify.

Like its other search tool Wolfram Alpha – which provides users with information by computing answers to questions posed to it – the Wolfram Language Image Identification Project will attempt to identify the subject of an image, and will also provide data on that subject by cross-referencing the identified word with its Wolfram Alpha information entry.

In a blog post, Wolfram Research founder and CEO Stephen Wolfram said that the new tool “won’t always get it right, but most of the time I think it does remarkably well.” He added that wrong answers were fascinating because “the mistakes it makes mostly seem remarkably human.”

In examples posted on his announcement, Wolfram explained that symbolic images or unexpected images usually gave the tool trouble, but with the Wolfram Language Image Identification Project giving amusing answers based on how it understood the image. Popular science fiction images, such as Chewbacca and the USS Enterprise, became a hunting dog and a flying boat, respectively, in the image identification tool’s virtual eyes.

Wolfram ended by saying that work would continue on improving recognition capabilities for ImageIdentify, though defining actual goals that would represent a human’s ability to reason out images and identify them may be beyond the immediate scope of the work involved.

For now, however, it’s a fun tool to play with, one that has important repercussions in the field of artificial intelligence. – Rappler.com

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.