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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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 ...

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 ...

Facebook announced a new artificial intelligence technology on Tuesday that could help describe images to the blind. In a video post about the new technology, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that ...

Instagram announced today that it’s rolling out new features that will make the app easier to use for people with visual impairments. The changes will allow screen readers to describe photos, either ...

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 ...