Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
Marketing

Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.

Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.

March 10, 20211 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
Marketing

Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
Marketing

Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
Marketing

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping
Marketing

New Behaviors Derail Old Training: How Covid-19 impacted the AI behind online shopping

The pandemic has radically altered online shopping behavior, throwing a wrench into many AI systems. AI inventory trackers, recommendation algorithms, and fraud detection systems trained on pre-pandemic consumer behavior have been flummoxed by the different ways people now browse, binge, and buy.

May 20, 20201 min read
Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.
Marketing

Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.

Asian companies lead the world in AI deployment, new research argues. Market research by MIT Technology Review Insights found that companies in the Asia-Pacific region are using machine learning faster and with better results than any other part of the world.

May 6, 20202 min read
Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.
Marketing

Asia’s AI Advantage: Asian companies show success in AI updake.

Asian companies lead the world in AI deployment, new research argues. Market research by MIT Technology Review Insights found that companies in the Asia-Pacific region are using machine learning faster and with better results than any other part of the world.

May 6, 20202 min read
Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
Marketing

Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.

A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.

February 19, 20201 min read
Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.
Marketing

Robocallers vs Robolawyer: AI tool automatically sues phone spammers.

A digital attorney is helping consumers take telemarketers and phone scammers to court. DoNotPay makes an app billed as the world’s first robot lawyer. Its latest offering, Robo Revenge, automates the process of suing intrusive robocallers.

February 19, 20201 min read

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