Wow I actually have a perfect use case for this in a hobby project. Great timing.<p>I considered the older version but it's very limited:<p>> The original Teachable Machine only let you train 3 classes, whereas now you can add as many classes as you like.<p>I'm curious to see how far this scales, for example can I have a few hundred thousand classes? If so, what are the consequences, if any?
I found old videos 6 years ago about techable machine
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhkeY974Rg&ab_channel=GoogleforDevelopers" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhkeY974Rg&ab_channel=Googl...</a><p>and in 2019, Google released v2 <a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/teachable-machine/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/technology/ai/teachable-machine/</a><p>The tasks are limited, good for kick starter. I think the platform is not fastly developed (?)
I've done my share of research on MediaPipe[1], but had never heard of Teachable Machine. I'm curious if these efforts are related, as these products looks like they were almost intended to be used together.<p>I am definitely excited to see that Google is investing into more "ML at the edge" use cases, especially in the browser. If you've never heard of MediaPipe before, but this caught your eye, definitely check it out. It has seen large uptake in the VTubing community especially as it has a very performant implementation of body + face + hand pose tracking driven by BlazePose.<p>1: <a href="https://developers.google.com/mediapipe" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/mediapipe</a>
FYI, this is not a new project. Here’s an HN discussion from 6 years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132</a>
Discussed at the time:<p><i>Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15399132</a> - Oct 2017 (90 comments)
This was a fun redesign attempt from years ago<p><a href="https://fairpixels.pro/work1/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://fairpixels.pro/work1/index.html</a>