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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by themodelplumber on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:58AM (#17197297)
I don't mean to play it down, but honestly classifying objects and identifying crowds don't seem like super valuable outcomes from such a huge investment. I guess I expected something like "persistently label and narrow down the definition of an object over the span of multiple occasions" or "identify the intent or demeanor of a crowd".
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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by nunya213 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:33PM (#17197683)
They are using this to routinely pull wanted criminals out of crowds using facial recognition. Seems valuable especially to somewhere like China that likes to grab particular people.
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Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup,... by zitterbewegung on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:05PM (#17197371)
Do you realize if you did this at scale how much faster you could look through recordings ? And that this is a manual process currently? Also, they are just starting out .
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