{"id":149,"date":"2020-08-21T19:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:03:44","slug":"visual-chatbot-what-can-ai-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/21\/visual-chatbot-what-can-ai-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Chatbot: What can AI tell you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To see for yourself the product, or end results, of an AI system, check out the Visual Chatbot<\/a> online. It’s free. It’s fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This app invites you to upload any image<\/em> of your choice. It then generates a caption<\/em> for that image. As you see above, the caption is not always 100 percent accurate. Yes, there is a dog in the photo, but there is no statue. There is a live person, who happens to be a soldier and a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can then have a conversation<\/em> about the photo with the chatbot. The chatbot’s answer to my first question, “What color is the dog?”, was spot-on. Further questions, however, reveal limits that persist in most of today’s image-recognition systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chat is still pretty awesome, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image appears in chapter 4 of in Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans<\/a>, where author Melanie Mitchell uses it to discuss the complexity that we humans can perceive instantly in an image, but which machines are still incapable of “seeing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of the mistakes the chatbot makes in its answers to questions about this image, it serves as a nice demonstration of how today’s chatbots do not need to follow a set script. Earlier chatbots were programmed with rules that stepped through a tree or flowchart of choices \u2014 if the human’s question contains x, <\/em>then reply with y<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see more info about Visual Dialog<\/a> if you’re curious about what the Visual Chatbot entails in terms of data, model, and\/or code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you can see some more questions I asked, with the answers from Visual Chatbot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n