How Flickr Is Learning To See What's In Your Photos More than just a fun hack, "Park or Bird?" gives us a glimpse at where deep learning and computer vision are headed. Smart as they are, computers are still as blind as a bat. It's why search engines index the web using text and why you still have to fill out those annoying captchas. But with advances in machine learning and image recognition, computer vision is slowly getting to the point where it will be useful to us. Flickr flexed its computer vision muscles recently with the launch of Park or Bird? The one-page web app was built in response to an XKDC comic poking fun at the limitations of computers when it comes to understanding the content of images. It allows people to upload a photo and automatically determine if the image was taken in a national park (using location meta data) or of a bird (using Flickr's computer vision). The hack itself wasn't anything more than a fun response to an Internet comic,
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