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Some Startups Use Fake Data to Train AI

Business, Spoken

English - April 26, 2018 16:31 - 9 minutes - ★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat’s selfie filters—hold up your phone and see your friends’ bodies transformed with special effects like fur or flames. To make it work, Spil.ly needed to train machine-learning algorithms to closely track human bodies in video.
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Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat’s selfie filters—hold up your phone and see your friends’ bodies transformed with special effects like fur or flames. To make it work, Spil.ly needed to train machine-learning algorithms to closely track human bodies in video.

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