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Haha, yeah, you are right. There are already quite decent image recognition systems. Thing is, a VPS is rather cheap, however, a dedicated server with a decent graphics card or even a rig of cards for Deep Learning is outside of @trufflepig's current bankroll (yet?). :-D

I also wanted to make an ai for Steemit. You were way faster than me. For the Graphics why dont you use models like inception or so to look at pictures? takes about 3 secs per picture on an raspberry pi. I know that it needs to be a bit faster for steem but that should be enough to at least classify the general content in the picture. Also i just delgated ~ 20 SP

Great, thanks for the delegation! :-)

Inception sure looks interesting. I discarded any image classification / regression simply due to time and complexity constraints. Besides, images are not part of the blockchain, so you need to curl them from wherever users' have hosted them. This just sounds incredibly slow to me.

And @trufflepig shouldn't stop you from creating your own AI, he's a bit lonely and could use some company :-D

2018 goals ;) nvidia GPU's!