Seeing with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services

It was interesting to try Microsoft Cognitive Services & Bots after seeing the keynote presentation* from the recent Build conference. I thought www.captionbot.ai did quite well with this photo of Alfie considering the mix of elements in the image.

Writing a caption for a dog photo is amusingly impressive but this real application of cognitive computing is magical:

About Caption Bot:

* Click on the time below to launch the relevant section of the Build Day 1 Keynote video:

• [2:05:50] Cornelia Carapcea, Senior PM, Cognitive APIs
• [2:07:13] "What is in this image" demo
• [2:07:58] CaptionBot