ARIA is an MIT Media Lab project from the Software Agents
that can do continuous retrieval and ranking of images based on typing. To me it suggests a more humble approach to agents than the “send off and forget” type of agent discussed in the 90s. This is more the “autocorrect” type of assistant. This is from Matt Patey.
From their Description:
ARIA (Annotation and Retrieval Integration Agent) is a software agent that acts as an assistant to a user writing email or Web pages. As the user types a story, it does continuous retrieval and ranking on a photo database. It can use descriptions in the story text to semi-automatically annotate pictures based on how they are used.