On December 18, Google announced NIMA, a project that the internet giant has been working on for quite some time now. NIMA stands for neural image assessment. So what is this NIMA? There is a lot of buzz about it, so let me try to explain to the best of my abilities.
NIMA, in a nutshell, is an
artificial intelligence that purports to be able to look at images and judge good from bad. The technology uses what is known as convolutional neural networks, which are networks that are trained with data that has been processed and labeled by a human hand, essentially learning the preferences of the average human. In the case of NIMA, the software has been trained to recognize objects and look at images, judging good images from the bad ones...
