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Microsoft has lit loose another AI experiment I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update Microsoft's artificially intelligent shat bought a is still in timeout after misbehaving on Twitter but that isn't stopping Microsoft in its quest to create systems that can interpret language and images and so the company released another AI program into the wild it's called caption bot you upload a photo into caption bot and within seconds Microsoft analyzes it and creates a description sometimes it gets the description perfect but as we found out through testing there's still a lot of work to do it didn't understand basic things like a baseball field a tree or the shape of a Starfleet captain to the Machine this man in a catwoman suit is a man with a surfboard and this scene with an alien well it's nothing to be scared of it's just a man brushing his teeth and when we put in a picture of its sibling Tay why that's just a cell phone he slashed she you can try it yourself at caption bought AI and speaking of weird things on the internet the vine mobile app has a new feature to keep you entranced and watching videos longer a new watch button on a profile will play through all of someone's six-second videos back to back now normally video is just keep looping until you scroll past them but you know what if you feel like your mobile life is just getting boring that you're stuck in the same app checking rut day after day well sharp created a phone that can change your life say hello to robo Han a little humanoid robot smartphone pet it starts shipping next month on May 26th and you take this little buddy with you wherever you go when you have a call you have to talk into him or turn him around and talk to his but it runs on Android but I don't think of how much use for normal apps with this fella he'll read your messages aloud so everyone can hear your conversations it projects videos from its head takes photos with its face and it babysits your infants and I guess it also could even serve as a therapist to treat depression I don't understand this ad but the point is it'll cost you about eighteen hundred dollars to own the 8 inch tall robo hon at that price hope you get a good case for it that's all for this tech news roundup and you can add the cnet com for the latest for more studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey