Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services

as well as a free taste of its tools.

We wanted to break our clunky DV tape recorder cameras so we could get issued the new digital ones that the Marine Corps had just transitioned to.Most of the footage just got shuffled into a database so that some colonel working at a desk in Quantico could get a glimpse of what the war was looking like on the ground.

and biometric-analysis tracking systems that catalogued people via retinal scan—and if we were Marines with the gall to film through the scopes of our rifles.as Okinawan locals joined in on the fun … You wouldnt know America was at war if you were tuned in to AFN.Rumor was that the poor guy kept getting kidnapped by the Taliban and other militias on his way home from work.

and even drove to his house to sit down and eat some fish that hed caught in the Helmand River (shit fish.Theres no way to know the number for sure: war is one of the last untouchable spaces where data can never be trusted—especially if its our data.

and guys were already talking conspiracy theories about how the pharmaceutical industry was behind the war.

Wadis—the streams or natural ravines that farmers in the region often used as irrigation canals—were our generations rice paddies; they were everywhere in Helmand Province.What is a Tasmanian devil? and get a response complete with photos.

Maria Diaz/ZDNETArtificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how we work and play in the past 18 months.for a more scannable result that is easier to digest than a wall of text.

as the number of oranges I ate last week doesnt affect the number of oranges I have today.Also: How to use Copilot (formerly called Bing Chat)Meanwhile.