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A couple months back, Microsoft introduced a ‘Custom Vision’ program to the public, which allowed anybody to design their own AI way easier than before. And with almost limitless potential, Geoff Boeing has decided to use the tech to create a City Describer.

This personal project by a Ph.D. candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, is basically an AI-architecture curator that can describe photos of cities. Now it has been turned into a Twitter channel where Geoff shows off the best and worst guesses by the AI, with the latter ones being especially hilarious.

Boeing uses images from Reddit’s ‘CityPorn’ community and feeds them to the program which, at least in theory, should learn and adapt to make more accurate guesses in the future.

More info: City Describer (h/t: designtaxi)

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    M O'Connell
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who knows, maybe this started out as a gigapixel image and they're actually right.

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    earringnut
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    even a human has to admit the short square building does look like a chip of some kind.

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    DE Ray
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you listen closely, you can hear them. "I walk along the avenue, I never thought I'd meet a girl like you, oo-oo..."

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looking at a zoomed long-exposure, I'm surprised it got any of it right.

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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if that's the space needle then that would be a large body of water with a mountain in the background

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