Box expands Skills beta with more AI and machine learning technologies - SiliconANGLE

Box Inc. today expanded a beta test program for its Skills software framework that uses machine learning to make video, audio, image and other files more useful on its content management service. Introduced last year, Box Skills opened up the ability to perform tasks on content such as computer vision for image analysis, video indexing and sentiment analysis from audio using machine learning technologies from IBM Corp.'s Watson, Microsoft Corp's Azure cloud and Google Cloud. Now, Box is expanding beyond the approximately 100 customers in the beta program, adding several new customers a week starting in July on top of the likes of Virgin Trains, Ancestry.com, "As we see more and more content put into Box, there's this opportunity with AI and machine learning to have more intelligence put in around the content," Box Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said in an interview. For instance, among the approximately 600 use cases is a large insurance company building a custom skill to label household objects in images and videos automatically in the homeowner insurance policy process.