Hipster or Homeless — Can AI tell the difference?
How to use Teachable Machine by Google for fun!
Google has just released its version 2.0 for Teachable Machine, an awesome tool for anybody to experiment with Machine Learning in the browser.
Besides the default examples with webcam images and gestures, I was looking for something new. Something bigger! Solving a question, which is sometimes pretty hard to answer…
Is this guy homeless or just a hipster?
I know there is no need for such an AI model in the real world… but who cares? It’s a fun way to try Teachable Machine for a couple of minutes! ;-)
Collect training data
To fetch some example images for the training, we can use an extension called Fatkun Batch Download Image. This extension makes it pretty easy to download all images returned by an image search in Google. Just enter your query, e.g. “hipster man beard”, and hit the download button. It will create a folder labeled with your query inside your download folder.
Repeat this step for some queries and put all downloaded images into two separate folders called “hipster” and “homeless”.
