Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head

[jesse_the_k]

…was the title of a surrealist cartoon book by B.Kliban (more famous for amusing drawings of cats). We frequently admonished each other to pick our food carefully back then in the 70s.

Despite this shared experience, MyGuy picked up this huge bell pepper at the grocery.

According to Seeing AI, I’m a “58 year old woman with glasses looking happy.” According to me, I’m a “65 year old smiling white woman with thick glasses holding a pepper that’s taller than her head.”

Microsoft proclaims that Seeing AI is a wonderful service for low vision and blind people. I see it the other way around: Microsoft is crowdsourcing machine language quality control from the adept community of blind smartphone power-users.

Maybe it’s both. At any rate you can download the free app or learn more at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai. Even fully sighted users can enjoy its exceptionally accurate OCR — it recognized a slogan written in chalk on the sidewalk.