MyHeritage releases new AI based PhotoDater tool

From MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com):

Introducing PhotoDater™, an Exclusive, Free New Feature to Estimate When Old Photos Were Taken 

If you are like most genealogists, you probably have cherished old family photos whose details, such as when they were taken, remain a mystery. Perhaps you flipped them over hoping to find more details, only to discover that your ancestors who treasured these photos didn’t leave any information behind. Until now, missing details about your photos could have remained a mystery forever, but here at MyHeritage, we set out to find a solution. Today we’re excited to announce the release of PhotoDater™, a groundbreaking, free new feature that estimates the year a photo was taken, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.

PhotoDater™ is one-of-a-kind: MyHeritage is the only genealogy service that offers date estimation for historical photos. Using powerful technology developed by our AI team, PhotoDater™ gives its best guess when a photo was taken. This can help you unlock further clues about who appears in the photo and the event at which it was taken, to solve mysteries in your genealogy research. PhotoDater™ is completely free! 

A video from MyHeritage esxplains how the new tool works at https://youtu.be/cWXTBPzF_ew, and embedded below for convenience:

For more on the new tool visit https://blog.myheritage.com/2023/08/introducing-photodater-an-exclusive-free-new-feature-to-estimate-when-old-photos-were-taken/.

Comment: I have had the privilege of playing with this tool since last week, and attended a pre-launch briefing about it online with Daniel Horowitz last Thursday evening. I have made some interesting finds, and have also noted issues which I will blog about shortly, but this is certainly an interesting release that shows genealogy is clearly now entering the AI era.

* See https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2023/08/test-cases-with-myheritages-new.html for my test cases using the software.

(With thanks to Daniel Horowitz)

Chris

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