This week Stephen Wolfram, founder and chief executive of Wolfram Research, announced a new component of the Wolfram Language for programming called ImageIdentify. Wolfram also introduced a new website, dubbed The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project, that demonstrates the language’s new capabilities.

The new site lets you upload images and get inferences and definitions in response. You can provide feedback, which should help it become more accurate. You can hit buttons like “Great!,” “Could be better,” “Missed the point,” and “What the heck?!” After you choose one, the service offers a few more guesses, and a text box where you can type in a tag. Then you can type in your email address, so it can tell you “when ImageIdentify learns more about your kind of image.”

The service uses a trendy type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. It draws on artificial neural networks, which train on a large quantity of information, like pictures, and then make inferences when you give it new information, like a new picture. Big web companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft use deep learning for various purposes, and increasingly smaller companies have been exposing deep learning tools for pretty much anyone to try out.

To get a rough sense of the power of the new Wolfram technology, I decided to put it up against other existing image-recognition systems you can test out on the Internet today, from CamFind, Clarifai, MetaMind, Orbeus, and IBM-owned AlchemyAPI. I chose images from Flickr that seemed to clearly fall into the 1,000 categories used for the 2014 ImageNet visual recognition competition. It was unscientific — just for the sake of curiosity.

What I found is that Wolfram’s new system doesn’t seem to be all that bad. It wasn’t overly conservative or vague, and it didn’t make many obvious mistakes — although it wasn’t as consistently accurate as MetaMind, for one. With time, Wolfram’s technology should improve — especially as people point out its flaws.

Here are 10 of the tests I ran to reach my conclusion.

1.Coffee mug

Wolfram ImageIdentify: tea

CamFind: white ceramic mug

Clarifai: coffee cup nobody tea mug cafe hot ceramic coffee cup cutout

MetaMind: Coffee mug

Orbeus: cup

AlchemyAPI: coffee

2. Mushroom

Wolfram ImageIdentify: magic mushroom

CamFind: white mushroom

Clarifai: mushroom fungi fungus toadstool nature grass fall moss forest autumn

MetaMind: Mushroom

Orbeus: fungus

AlchemyAPI: mushroom

3. Spatula

Wolfram ImageIdentify: spatula

CamFind: black kitchen turner

Clarifai: steel wood knife handle iron fork equipment nobody tool chrome

MetaMind: spatula

Orbeus: tool

AlchemyAPI: knife

4. Scoreboard

Wolfram ImageIdentify: scoreboard

CamFind: baseball scoreboard

Clarifai: scoreboard soccer stadium football game competition goal group north america match

MetaMind: Scoreboard

Orbeus: billboard

AlchemyAPI: sport

5. German shepherd

Wolfram ImageIdentify: German shepherd

CamFind: black and brown German shepherd

Clarifai: dog canine cute puppy mammal loyalty grass sheepdog fur German hepherd

MetaMind: German Shepherd, German Shepherd Dog, German Police Dog, Alsatian

Orbeus: animal

AlchemyAPI: dog

6. Toucan

Wolfram ImageIdentify: tufted puffin

CamFind: toucan bird

Clarifai: bird one north america nobody animal people adult nature two outdoors

MetaMind: toucan

Orbeus: animal

AlchemyAPI: sport

7. Indian cobra

Wolfram ImageIdentify: black-necked cobra

CamFind: brown and beige cobra snake

Clarifai: snake nobody reptile cobra wildlife daytime sand rattlesnake north america desert

MetaMind: Indian cobra, Naja Naja

Orbeus: animal

AlchemyAPI: snake

8. Strawberry

Wolfram ImageIdentify: strawberry

CamFind: red strawberry ruit

Clarifai: fruit sweet food strawberry ripe juicy berry healthy isolated delicious

MetaMind: strawberry

Orbeus: strawberry

AlchemyAPI: berry

9. Wok

Wolfram ImageIdentify: cooking pan

CamFind: gray steel frying pan

Clarifai: ball nobody pan cutout kitchenware north america tableware competition bowl glass

MetaMind: wok

Orbeus: frying pan

AlchemyAPI: (No tags)

10. Shoe store

Wolfram ImageIdentify: store

CamFind: black crocs

Clarifai: colour street people color car mall road fair architecture hotel

MetaMind: Shoe Shop, Shoe Store

Orbeus: shoe shop

AlchemyAPI: sport