Wednesday, February 19, 2020

How AI "understands" history

I use Unsplash on a weekly basis. It's one of the most popular stock photography repositories, and I appreciate the large selection, as well as vibrant and modern style of the photographs I find there.

Unsplash uses AI to tag and describe images. I encountered a number of interesting AI-sourced interpretations of well-known historical photographs. They made me chuckle.

In reality: Richard Nixon visiting quarantined Apolo 11 astronauts.

In reality: Graffiti painting on the Berlin wall titled "My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love", portrays the socialist fraternal kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

In reality: Dwight D. Eisenhower, displaying Atoms for Peace post stamps, around 1955.

In reality: Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California, visits Los Alamos in 1967.  


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