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by mig39 4044 days ago
Are these supposed to be funny?

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/92679...

"a man wielding an electric razor is gleefully shaving away another man ' s hair ."

Hilarious!

I think they've stumbled on computer-generated comedy. Some funny stuff in there.

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That's from the "Nearest Caption in the Training Dataset". Which means it found the most similar image, and that image had that caption.
No. That is not how it works. Read the papers again.
It very clearly says "Nearest Caption in the Training Dataset". The generated labels are below it.
What papers?
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/80282...

It must be making some very broad generalisations to come up with the tag 'homosexuals'...

It weirded me out, too.

The only image I tried (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nitish/nips2014demo/results/79355...) is tagged "lesbianism".