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Seeing AI for iOS

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Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by ian0 »

Wow. You can imagine a near future where this, a small wearable camera and an earphone could really make a big difference to a persons daily life.

Screw Siri, thats a real AI assistant :)

Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by mishurov »

doomlaser wrote: post #37
nharada wrote: post #22

Yes, YES, this is what I'm talking about Microsoft. I'm surprised how muted the reaction is from HN here. On the technical side, this is a perfect example of how AI can be used effectively, and is a (very obvious in hindsight) application of the cutting edge in scene understanding and HCI. There are quite a few recent and advanced techniques rolled into one product here, and although I haven't tried it out yet it see…

These are all definitely applications of ML we've seen around in different places, but this is the first package I've seen to put them together in an integrated way on a smartphone. I'm also impressed with Microsoft's effort here. It looks pretty nice, especially the different 'channels' metaphor for the various ML processing tasks (Scene, barcode, people, short text etc) for the visually impaired.

I'd rather say that machine learning is an application of mathematical statistics.

Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by scalablenotions »

ve55 wrote: post #30

If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where. And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not visually impaired. For the person who is, every single thing they look at and read is going to be recorded and used. It's an unfortunate situation for people to put in, and I'm sure…

As far as public use goes, it's always been considered legal / ethical to photograph people in public places. One does not know where the "information" in a photograph will end up, but since they are already technically in public view, it's something of a moot point.

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Post by njsubedi »

ve55 wrote: post #30

If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where. And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not visually impaired. For the person who is, every single thing they look at and read is going to be recorded and used. It's an unfortunate situation for people to put in, and I'm sure…

Where do you want to escape?

Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by visarga »

ve55 wrote: post #30

If I have a friend that is visually impaired and is using this, I have to consent to their phone recording me and analyzing me and sending all of that data off to who knows where. And this is just from my perspective - someone who is not visually impaired. For the person who is, every single thing they look at and read is going to be recorded and used. It's an unfortunate situation for people to put in, and I'm sure…

In the future, most AI will happen locally, not remote, because of privacy, latency and cost. There is a lot of research in adapting models to fit phones (such as reducing the size of the NN by 20x-100x and still having almost all the accuracy).

Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by Joeri »

ian0 wrote: post #42

Wow. You can imagine a near future where this, a small wearable camera and an earphone could really make a big difference to a persons daily life. Screw Siri, thats a real AI assistant :)

For years I've wanted a pair of glasses that overlays the world with captions, putting names and "you know them from" next to people, address numbers next to buildings, etc. Google glass made me hopeful, but it fizzled out.

Re: Seeing AI for iOS

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Post by kiliankoe »

TheCoreh wrote: post #21
seeingai wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the launch, its available in USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. And gradually, should be available in more countries. Anirudh from Seeing AI team

Just curious, what is the reasoning behind such rollouts? Localization?

I really hope not. I'm not saying localization isn't important, but holding back an English app because of this is something I don't understand. A huge part of the world speaks English just fine. Release first, localize later if it's not possible right away. This is probably not the case here, but I hate it when devs forget that the US isn't the entire world that they're releasing their app to.
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