Algorithm learns to understand natural beauty

Algorithm learns to understand natural beauty
BBC, 2017/08/08
It's really time for some proper scepticism from news articles reporting on artificial intelligence. This item on understanding natural beauty is a case in point. For training data, "they focused the algorithm on 200,000 images rated by people on the website ScenicOrNot." The new images are then rated by their similarity to images in the training data. More...