The AI conductor: machine learning on machine learning by Veritone Access AI

Veritone, a company which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gain actionable insights from unstructured data like video and audio, announced last week that their system, Conductor, is operating at 82% accuracy, as opposed to the previous best of 75%. This success may herald a new dawn for Veritone, who announced their concerns over whether they may ever achieve or sustain profitability in May this year. Chad Steelberg, Veritone founder and CEO, has focused on investing in an AI platform and moved away from Veritone's media buying and placement business, traditionally seen as more lucrative. Developers told Access-AI that Veritone's improvements are due to Conductor, a technology which acts as a kind of managing editor, optimising the results of the 70 third-party engines that form the Veritone platform, in a seemingly unique instance of machine learning (ML) being applied to machine learning. The screenshot below shows an example of Veritone collecting instances of media figure Emily Chang.