Google offers computer 'vision' tech - Business Insider

Google offers computer 'vision' tech - Business Insider

You have successfully emailed the post. Google's new computer 'vision' tech is very cool and somewhat terrifying See Also Google on Tuesday announced a new tool on Wednesday for app developers that's absolutely amazing and also a little disturbing: it lets apps, robots and drones "see." The tech is called the Google Cloud Vision API  and it allows any app developer to tap into Google's smart "machine learning" service that can identify objects, including faces and emotions. Cloud Vision solves a hard computer problem of "seeing." For instance, your computer can scan and reproduce an image of a mountain or an image of a baby, but to the computer, they look the same: a bunch of pixels. Your computer can't sift through your photos and find baby photos for you, unless you've tagged them "baby." Google Photos, on the other hand, can find the baby photos. And now Google is making that technology available to programmers to add to their apps.

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