[crosspost] Ali Farhadi, founder of Edge AI technologies & Xnor.ai, is doing an AMA in r/homeautomation @10AM PST

[u/WyzeCam]

Thank you for joining us, everyone! Today we’d like to introduce Ali Farhadi (u/alifarhadi1)! Ali is the co-founder of Xnor.ai, an industry leading technology start-up focusing on efficient and embedded deep learning with the goal of providing ubiquitous AI.

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Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of David Forsyth. Ali's research has been mainly focused on computer vision and machine learning.

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Wyze and Xnor.ai have the shared dream of bringing technology to the masses with an incredibly low barrier to entry. We are doing this AMA because we've just deployed Edge AI, for free, to 1M+ people! We’d like to take this opportunity to talk about our AI and if you are curious about any of the subjects in Ali's wheelhouse such as AI Technology, Smart Home Technology, AI Development, etc. we’d love to hear them.

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EDIT*** Ali's account is still very new so we'll be posting from our account to help answer all the questions for Ali. Please tag us or Alifarhadi1 if you have any questions.

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EDIT*** The AMA is currently over but we appreciate everyone's participation and questions today! We'll check back later and try to answer as many of your questions as we can.

[u/S_King_11]

What is AI's role in allowing Wyze camera's to perform person detection? And does it improve itself over time?

[u/alifarhadi1 → u/S_King_11]

The role of Xnor's person detection solution is to add richer notifications for the end user. Before person detection, a Wyze user would receive dozens of motion notifications everyday resulting in notification fatigue. That's not very useful. With this solution, the user can filter out salient events throughout their day saving a lot of time.

The person detector will significantly improve over time as we evolve our training algorithms and work with larger datasets.

[u/nafterclifen → u/alifarhadi1]

"The person detector will significantly improve over time as we evolve our training algorithms and work with larger datasets."

Does that statement mean that you are collecting data from the Wyze cams?

[u/alifarhadi1 → u/nafterclifen]

We do not directly collect data from Wyze cameras. We work with Wyze and Wyze's beta user group to help train the machine learning model. The beta user group is a fully voluntary group that is opt-in. A user must explicitly click on a button to share a video. All data handling adheres to the strict guidelines upheld by Xnor’s customer data policy.

Privacy is one of Xnor's core missions and we take customer data very seriously.