Computer that sees pictures and writes captions — images turned into words

This new system learns to connect pictures and words so a computer can understand a photo, then say what it sees. First it builds a shared space where images and text sit close when they mean the same thing. Then a second part turns those ideas into simple sentences. The result look natural and often right, even when nothing exact was seen before.

It can pick the best caption for a photo, or create new descriptions from scratch, and it even plays small word games like swapping colors — the famous blue→red trick where a blue car minus “blue” plus “red” finds red cars. This shows the system learned real links between pictures and words. People tried it on big photo collections and the captions …

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