E854 Brian Brakeen Kairos: facial recognition, $30m token, future of AI, why he won't sell to police
发布时间 2018-09-11 18:36:12 来源
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10/22/18 UPDATE: Since the taping of this show on 9/5/18, Kairos co-founder Brian Brackeen was fired as CEO and is being sued by the company. As of this writing, he is challenging both the termination and the lawsuit.
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Kairos CEO & Co-founder Brian Brackeen on innovating in facial recognition, processing over a billion faces, raising $30m via token sale, the dream & dystopia of AI, the persistence of racial profiling, & why he won't sell his technology to law enforcement
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Show Notes:
0:40 - Jason introduces this episode’s guest - a returning founder, Brian Brackeen, CEO & Founder of Kairos, a company providing business with facial recognition technologies. Visit their website at www.kairos.com
1:54 - Jason and Brian elaborate on what “under-representation” means and looks like in the world of startups.
4:23 - Does Silicon Valley deserve credit for realizing a problem in under-representation of women, latinx, and black founders in the startup world?
6:24 - Brian is a product of the NewMe accelerator, created by Angela Benton. Jason asks what product Brian entered the accelerator with
7:17 - Brian updates Jason on what Kairos is about, and how the product is growing.
9:45 - Brian shares a variety of the use cases for the Kairos facial recognition.
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16:44: Jason and Brian go through a demonstration of the product. Brian also explains why he has no intention of selling his product to Police. The AI behind facial recognition algorithms is being produced by non-diverse groups of people. Inevitably, wider, more inclusive spectrums of people are left out, making the technology faulty.
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26:00 - Jason asks whether Brian intends to use tokens, for the ICU’s.
29:20 - Given the intense cost of living in Silicon Valley, are people leaving to come to Miami?
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36:02 - How accurate is the emotional detection, in facial recognition? Brian shares an example of the misuse of facial recognition in China.
42:04 - What is the reasonable compromise, for using facial recognition for safety purposes, but not providing too much information to the government or larger corporations?
49:06 - Jason and Brian talk about where Kairos is at in terms of funding, and what Brian’s hopes are regarding it.
54:20 - Jason asks Brian what he thinks is going to happen to the top 3 cryptocurrencies. Will they survive?
55:40 - Closing Remarks
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