Conversations in Machine Learning: Clever Image Recognition Application, Inadequate Annotation Solution

This is another installment of Mighty AI's "Conversations in Machine Learning" blog series. Each week, our content human, Cassie, shares a summary of a recent conversation we had with a machine learning team and potential customer--what they're building, how they're handling training data today, etc. Read more about the series here. Each of those would be appropriate depending on the context--you'd connect its brand name to a search engine (because it is one, among other things), you'd call it a technology company with a glance-over of its corporate site, and you'd say it's a machine learning company if you dug into its products. That's because these days, machine learning is powering virtually everything the company does and is behind nearly everything it builds. To back up a bit, this is a European technology firm with deep roots in search and respectably deep roots in machine learning, too (employees there developed a proprietary ML methodology nearly a decade ago, and creating a whole new methodology sounds impressive to me at least).