Suppose you have a collection of digital photos you took on a trip to a zoo. You want to programmatically classify each photo as one of the 100 different kinds of animals you photographed: "aardvark," ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Deep learning has revolutionized the machine understanding of imagery.

Every day there's a fresh news story about "image recognition," aka "computer vision" — terms that have a faintly sci-fi feel to them. The technology can seem almost forbiddingly futuristic and ...

In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram. In research the company is presenting today at F8, Facebook ...