Researchers let AI loose on 100 million Instagram photos to study style

Cornell University researchers have found the motherlode of data to inform their studies about clothing trends around the world: Instagram. They've applied machine learning to a set of 100 million photos uploaded to the image sharing app, and while the results aren't earth shattering (red hats are big at Christmas!) they've paved the way for the anthropologists of the future. The photos come from 44 cities across the world. A machine learning algorithm was trained to identify faces and articles ...