"What is this?" Upload any image and Wolfram will find you an answer

[mmadhankumar]

Wolfram has come up with a new service that identifies images you throw at it. The company has built the "ImageIdentify" function built into the Wolfram Language that lets you ask, "What is this a picture of?" and gives you an answer.

The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project on the web lets users upload a picture (drag it from a web page, snap it on your phone, or load it from a file) and tells you what it is. Though it doesn't give you a precise answer, it still can trigger your curious finger to test one picture after the other.

For instance, we uploaded an image of a human face, and it answered "person". On uploading a phone image, it said, "device".

"It won't always get it right, but most of the time I think it does remarkably well. And to me what's particularly fascinating is that when it does get something wrong, the mistakes it makes mostly seem remarkably human," says Wolfram.


"What is this?" Upload any image and Wolfram will find you an answer. Try for yourself - IBNLive