What does artificial intelligence see when it looks at your city? I recently created a Twitter bot in Python called CityDescriber that takes popular photos of cities from Reddit and describes them using Microsoft’s computer vision AI. The bot typically does pretty well with straightforward images of city skylines and street scenes:
an aerial view of a city at night pic.twitter.com/liJSmtrgTK
— City Describer (@CityDescriber) September 20, 2017
a group of people walking across a snow covered street pic.twitter.com/TujM8ugH9s
— City Describer (@CityDescriber) September 19, 2017
Some are even kind of wryly poetic, such as this description of Los Angeles: