The AI can even tell if you're smiling in a photo. — -- Facebook debuted a new artificial intelligence system today that can describe photos in stunning detail, making the social network even ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is training its computers to become seeing-eye guides for blind and visually impaired people as they scroll through the pictures posted on the world’s largest online ...

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While social media accessibility tools for the visually impaired have come a long way, Instagram has been lagging behind. That doesn't mean people with visual impairments have ditched the app. But it ...

Browse through your Facebook News Feed and you'll see photos play a prominent part, meaning visually impaired users are missing out on a lot of updates from their friends. Now Facebook's engineers ...

Billions of photos flow through social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter every day, but for the blind and visually impaired, navigating these networks can be tricky. It s getting ...

The internet is not easy to navigate for people with visual imparities. While there are screen reader applications to help them, often, websites or users don’t add alt text to images. In turn, the ...

Machines aren’t generally too great at describing pictures in human terms, but Google has now released ‘Show and Tell’, a free software algorithm capable of automatically captioning images with an ...

Artificial intelligence is meant to be taking over the world, but along the way, it seems to be helping out humans from time to time. Today’s example: Facebook is using its artificial intelligence ...