The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Roboflow, a Des Moines, Iowa-based startup developing tools for building computer vision models, today announced it has raised $20 million in a series A round led by Craft Ventures. This brings the company’s total raised […]
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Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men
Facebook users who recently watched a video from a British tabloid featuring Black men saw an automated prompt from the social network that asked if they would like to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” causing the company to investigate and disable the artificial intelligence-powered feature that pushed the message. Facebook […]
Musk admits Full Self-Driving system ‘not great,’ blames a single stack for highway and city streets – TechCrunch
It hasn’t even been a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestreamed event full of technical jargon meant to snare the choicest of AI and vision engineers to come work for Tesla and help the company achieve autonomous greatness, and already CEO Elon Musk is coming in with […]
Top four highlights of Elon Musk’s Tesla AI Day – TechCrunch
Elon Musk wants Tesla to be seen as “much more than an electric car company.” On Thursday’s Tesla AI Day, the CEO described Tesla as a company with “deep AI activity in hardware on the inference level and on the training level” that can be used down the line for […]
How computer vision works — and why it’s plagued by bias
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. It’s no secret that AI is everywhere, yet it’s not always clear when we’re interacting with it, let alone which specific techniques are at play. But one subset is easy to recognize: If the experience is intelligent and […]
A Fire in Minnesota. An Arrest in Mexico. Cameras Everywhere.
The A.T.F., which is tasked with investigating arson cases, released photos of suspects, offering $5,000 for helpful tips from the public. A video of Mr. Felan “went viral,” leading to “several tips, including from individuals who wish to remain anonymous,” an A.T.F. agent said in a court document. (The A.T.F. […]
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Aurora’s SPAC merger comes amid self-driving car delays
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Self-driving car startup Aurora is ready to go public in a reverse merger with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a special acquisition company (SPAC). The merger will give Aurora an infusion of cash to develop autonomous trucks and, later, […]
Clearview AI raises $30 million from investors despite legal troubles.
Clearview AI is currently the target of multiple class-action lawsuits and a joint investigation by Britain and Australia. That hasn’t kept investors away. The New York-based start-up, which scraped billions of photos from the public internet to build a facial-recognition tool used by law enforcement, closed a Series B round […]
Tractable uses computer vision to accelerate insurance claims
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. The ability to digitize routine tasks is crucial for accelerating the pace of business. Insurance claims remain a prime example of this. When a car accident or some other disaster occurs, the biggest bottleneck often remains the need to send a […]
Trigo bags $10M for computer-vision based checkout tech to rival Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ – TechCrunch
While Amazon continues to expand its self-service, computer-vision-based grocery checkout technology by bringing it to bigger stores, an AI startup out of Israel that’s built something to rival it has picked up funding and a new strategic investor as a customer. Trigo, which has produced a computer vision system that […]