Artificial Interior Designers: How #ai is helping scientists study cultures around the world
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People trained computers using a programming technique called transfer learning. People first pick out objects in rooms — and then the computers could do the work on their own. Credit: Penn StateArtificial intelligence helped a team of researchers analyze about a million images of living rooms all over the world to better understand how different cultures decorate their homes.According to a Penn State news release, the researchers used a type of machine learning, called transfer learning, to pick out wall colors, wall #art, books, and other beautifying techniques to see how people personalized their living rooms — about 50,000 living rooms, as a matter of fact. The living room pictures were collected from the Airbnb website, a place where people market their rental homes and rooms.“We were (...)