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The correct link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services Above is just a Bing search.
I have thought about this many times. What kind of startups or companies would actually pay for ML as a service at the initial stages knowing very well that a) you are providing a lot of training data and instead of being paid for the service, you are actually paying for the privilege? b) if your product/service takes off, there is a higher chance you will be competing not against similar startups, but rather a featu…
I have thought about this many times. What kind of startups or companies would actually pay for ML as a service at the initial stages knowing very well that a) you are providing a lot of training data and instead of being paid for the service, you are actually paying for the privilege? b) if your product/service takes off, there is a higher chance you will be competing not against similar startups, but rather a featu…
While I am just treating this as a research project, some of the content is from Youtube, so they are effectively a competitor. Google has been using their speech recognition to help the Youtube search (which has helped me), but they so much data that it's hard for them to solve niche use cases.
I have thought about this many times. What kind of startups or companies would actually pay for ML as a service at the initial stages knowing very well that a) you are providing a lot of training data and instead of being paid for the service, you are actually paying for the privilege? b) if your product/service takes off, there is a higher chance you will be competing not against similar startups, but rather a featu…
I've always wondered if there is anything stopping this data from being used to inform market opportunities for Amazon, Google or Microsoft.
The correct link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services Above is just a Bing search.
I thought it was interesting that something called "Project Oxford" on the .ai TLD redirected to Microsoft Cognitive Services. :) By the way the the entire list of .ai domains makes for interesting reading: http://anguilla-ai.com/list.html Here is the top 30 entities (inc. unknown) because I have no life. Make of it what you will. USA 2871 Japan 66 Singapore 27 China 636 Netherlands 53 Spain 27 Anguilla 338 Russia 48…
Computer vision API seems pretty shaky outside of very basic object recognition: Royal Coat of Arms, "Two giraffes with a book." Astronaut above earth, "A motorcycle mirror." Twin towers behind statue of liberty: "A tall clock tower towering over the city of london." Che Guevara: "A woman wearing a hat." The emotion API doesn't seem as shaky. Presumably because its a better defined problem with a smaller search space…
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I think this comes down to making sure your advantage is inhouse but outsource the other stuff. For the vast amount of companies where ML isn't in any way core, this is great. For example we've got a little internal app that includes a profile picture. Currently we pre-crop photos before uploading. Obviously not the best solution. Putting together a little javascript thingy to allow the user to crop is somewhere deep…
Face recognition is built into OpenCV. It should be very easy to implement this feature yourself without relying on any third party. http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/tutor...
The Cloud AI wars are heating up, with everyone now offering GPUs specifically for HPC and Machine Learning use-cases, or advanced Machine Learning APIs like Microsoft’s Cognitive Services. That said, I really like Google Cloud’s new Machine Learning APIs [0], which go the extra mile and let you train & run your own models, in a NoOps kind of way. This is greatly useful because there is relatively little value, in my…
So I recently had a chance to use these APIs for a Microsoft hackathon project and wow are these APIs unstable right now. I was trying to use their Linguistic Analysis API for POS tagging some text, and even for text as short as 500 characters, the API took over a minute to respond. If I bumped it upto a 1000 characters, the API would just error out and give a 500 status code without any explanation after keeping me…
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>As in, that iphone you're clutching in your hand, will it go from smart to dumb once we move on to a software distribution model where by the device is but a high-res screen with a nice camera but running everything else remotely in the cloud somewhere? That sounds like it's going to have absolutely killer latency problems. >Because that's the only way to get to point where we have universal computing, the kind of s…
>I will pay a lot of money to buy hardware and software that actually shifts back towards programmable stuff that I actually own and can do what I want with. So that's exactly what would happen. Those who have the bucks will buy hardware and do customizations, while the rest will buy standard display, and camera and suffer the latency, privacy and personalization problems. I don't see it as difficult. Only thing is r…
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