Microsoft's latest computer vision technology beats humans at captioning images

Seeing AI. Photo by Microsoft Microsoft has expanded its existing efforts to improve life for the visually impaired by developing an AI system capable of automatically generating high-quality image captions -- and, in 'many cases,' the company says its AI outperforms humans. This type of technology may one day be used to, among other things, automatically caption images shared online to aid those who are dependent on computer vision and text readers. Computer vision plays an increasingly importa...