Machine Learning for Designers

Going further, image tagging and image description systems are used to generate keywords or a sentence that describes the contents of an image (see Figure 1-12). These technologies can be used to aid image-based search processes as well as assist visually impaired users to extract information from sources that would be otherwise inaccessible to them.

expressive limitations of traditional input devices such as the keyboard and mouse, opening an entirely new set of interaction paradigms that will allow users to communicate ideas in ever more natural and intuitive ways.

Whatever services these systems may offer, they are only valuable to us if they work consistently.

Of course, what we choose to call “intelligence” or “life” is a matter of language more than anything else. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see these phenomena in a broader context and understand that nature has a way of reusing certain principles across many disparate applications.

Though we would certainly call the behaviors of thermal systems complex, we have not generally thought of these systems as holding a strong relation to the fundamental principles of intelligence and life.