We Asked Some of the Smartest Computers to Identify This Picture
One of the top commercial artificial-intelligence systems thought Zuckerberg was a cardigan
Wall-E, 2008.
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In the Pixar movie Wall-E, our eponymous hero meets the love of his life, a sleek robot named Eve, after she spots his houseplant and steals it to help save the human race. If the film were set in 2015, Eve probably would have grabbed the bubble wrap by mistake.
Computers are a long way from being capable of the flawless image recognition you see in the movies. To illustrate that point, we put four of today's most cutting-edge commercial artificial-intelligence systems through their paces to see how well they could identify what's in a photograph. We fed six images into each system from AI startups Clarifai, Orbeus, and MetaMind, as well as IBM's celebrity Jeopardy! contestant, Watson, and recorded the classifications.