“We power the world’s largest surveillance network. Only possible in China.”
“We can predict crime before it happens.”
— Bing Xu, co-founder of SenseTime at the Goldman Sachs Private Innovative Company Conference (PICC) in Las Vegas. SenseTime raised $2B in 2018.
“Shenzhen smart city is the first one. We can predict crime before it happens. If certain people go places they should not”
“We power the world’s largest surveillance network. Recently signed satellite companies (for 510M sq. km. of image data). Trained on 2.5 billion faces and 410M unique IDs. Only possible in China. Best face recognition algorithm in world.”
“Embedded in 400M smart phones, 240K surveillance cameras, 260K IOT devices and 189 satellites.”
I took a short video of his AI superpower claims
Here is my general worry: by violating privacy in a way we might not explore in the West, they gather the largest training data sets, and develop the best deep neural nets. Consider new areas, like medical imaging. I have to wonder if they would blow past the friction we face with HIPAA and general privacy concerns.
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