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From authority to similarity: how Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision
Authors
Warren Pearce, Maud Borie, Laura Bruschi, Daniele Dell'Orto, Matthew Hanchard, Elena Pilipets, Alessandro Quets, and Zijing Xu
Data visualisation showing the ranking of Google Images results for climate change in Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico, Netherlands and Nigeria. Some images such as 'earht in hand' and 'landscape' appear multiple times across different countries
Data visualisation showing Google Images search results for biodiversity loss in Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico, Netherlands and Nigeria. As with climate change, some images appear multiple times across different countries, such as scientific charts and 'lonely animal', but there is slightly more diversity than for climate change
Data visualisation showing that most search results from Google Images are different than those from Google Search. This applies for both climate change and biodiversity loss, and across all six countries.
How has computer vision changed Google's knowledge infrastructure? 🤔
*Extremely* happy that our pre-print now up at SocArXiv. Our amazing team dig into Google Images, the #AI technology driving it, and the impacts for users.
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