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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Opinion
Clarifai does not view Google as a direct competitor
“So Google, we don't consider them a competitor. They have great research teams and really big research teams and great resources but they're working on their own problems. They have their own users, and they don't they don't really compete with us in terms of …”
Opinion
Competitiveness in computer vision now strictly requires using neural networks
“And you can see now, to even be competitive, you have to use neural networks.”
Assertion Supported
Clarifai won the seminal 2013 ImageNet computer vision competition
“Clarify happened to be this result at the bottom. We won the 2013 competition.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Clarifai's video recognition runs ten times faster than real time
“It can run about 10 times faster than real time,”
Insight
Unsupervised neural networks will never match models trained on well-labeled data
“These models work really well with labeled data. There are approaches where you can train without any labels but the performance is never as good as if you have well-labeled data.”
Assertion Supported
Siri and Android voice recognition already rely entirely on neural networks
“Speech recognition, basically all the Siri processing or Android voice recognition is done with neural networks these days.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Clarifai automatically tagged 1.3 million stock images in a few minutes
“And again, this is done automatically on, this is 1.3 million images, it takes a matter of minutes to do this, so you can scale this up to billions of images, no problem.”
Disclosure
Google, Qualcomm, and Nvidia are strategic investors in Clarifai
“We got some great investors like Google, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA who help power this technology for us.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stock photography platforms still rely entirely on manual labeling in 2014
“Same story with stock photography. They are all manually labeled at this point.”