Al Scry – A new application for iPhone, which recognizes the objects around us

As the title says. Al Scry is a simple, playful iPhone application capable of recognizing objects captured by the phone's camera.

Is this app useful? Depends! Interesting and with promising prospects for the future? Certainly. How does it work? Simple. Al Scry can recognize objects based on a developed algorithm that already promises very well. Point the camera at objects and they are identified and recognized by sound (a voice) or a text.

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With AI • Scry in your hand, you become an alien psychologist, probing the quirks, biases, impossibilities, and idiosyncrasies of this unknowable mind.

"Scrying" is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, or for purposes of divination or fortune-telling... Although scrying is most commonly done with a crystal ball, it may also be performed using any smooth surface, such as a bowl of liquid, a pond, or a crystal.

Built with neuraltalk2 from Andrej Karpathy. Training dataset generated by anonymous, underpaid humans working through Amazon Mechanical Turk.

HERE you have a video clip in which the many ways of use are presented. The application is available for download at the price of 0.99 euros.