Microsoft's New CaptionBot AI Is Being Put Through Its Paces

Microsoft unveiled their latest artificial intelligence project on Thursday, and they're probably hoping it doesn't go the way of Tay, their last AI which was supposed to learn from people on Twitter but just ended up being really, really racist.

The tech giant's latest attempt at making a smart piece of software is CaptionBot, which attempts to analyse pictures and provide a suitable caption for them.

Click here to play around with it.

Obviously, Twitter jumped into action and started pushing memes through it.

Don't worry CaptionBot, neither can I, neither can I. pic.twitter.com/9MJrHW3GXb
— Tom Wilson (@feedthedrummer) April 14, 2016

An entirely apt caption from CaptionBot for this one of @ThistleTweet's Kingsley. Says it all. pic.twitter.com/8NLGNDGtaT
— Craig Smith (@CraigRWS) April 14, 2016

Nor can I, captionbot. pic.twitter.com/x2NhPlqHsd
— Ryan Barrell (@RyanBarrell) April 14, 2016

not bad, Captionbot.ai, not bad at all pic.twitter.com/A1AC9Fjk6I
— Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) April 14, 2016

CaptionBot just can't handle Ed Miliband https://t.co/4MRXpgVgSG pic.twitter.com/4TlIN6RVjq
— Asa Bennett (@asabenn) April 14, 2016

My first attempt at #captionbot :-D pic.twitter.com/v5TXwf4bC6
— Julia (@AntDanceParty) April 14, 2016

But most people found it didn't quite do the job it was supposed to...

captionbot.ai nailed it pic.twitter.com/BROvlNbgIT
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) April 13, 2016

Thought I'd see if Microsoft's CaptionBot AI could tell an arse from an elbow (see, funny joke idea) but uhhhhh pic.twitter.com/32ptlSwm1A
— Jonathan Cresswell (@JonathanEx) April 14, 2016

#captionbot thinks Michelle Obama is a cell phone. pic.twitter.com/FtC6tP6Ben
— David Sim (@davidsim) April 14, 2016

Of course, a few jokers mocked up some fake ones:

Nailed it, captionbot. Absolutely nailed it. pic.twitter.com/IpW2qfqMug
— Anthony B, (@swearyanthony) April 14, 2016

Captionbot's AI is improving pic.twitter.com/3xGyBHuEcr
— Ben Skipper (@bskipper27) April 14, 2016

Wow this automated captionbot thing is great pic.twitter.com/FikH7FcUcr
— RopesToInfinity (@RopesToInfinity) April 14, 2016

This CaptionBot thing is really clever. pic.twitter.com/sE9Yjq9pwZ
— HuffPost UK Comedy (@HuffPostUKCom) April 14, 2016

And a few people were even lucky enough to get it bang on.

Well played #captionbot, well played..... pic.twitter.com/jkgRISHPys
— Tom Beckett (@tombeckett2285) April 14, 2016

No doubt the people at Microsoft will have put some measures in place to stop CaptionBot turning into another Tay fiasco, however it will be learning from every image that gets uploaded - so maybe in a week or so it'll actually be able to tell what Ed Miliband is up to in that bacon sarnie picture.

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Microsoft's New CaptionBot AI Is Being Put Through Its Paces

Obviously, Twitter jumped into action and started pushing memes through it.

But most people found it didn't quite do the job it was supposed to...

Of course, a few jokers mocked up some fake ones:

And a few people were even lucky enough to get it bang on.

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Obviously, Twitter jumped into action and started pushing memes through it.

But most people found it didn't quite do the job it was supposed to...

Of course, a few jokers mocked up some fake ones:

And a few people were even lucky enough to get it bang on.

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