CrowdAI sells artificial-intelligence-as-a-service

Computers aren't blind, but they can't see. They can detect objects, but must be trained to understand what those objects are. That takes two things: a ton of example data collected and organized by artificial intelligence and humans to accurately label and verify that data. Done right, this process can teach self-driving cars to avoid pedestrians, detect parking lot usage by counting cars in satellite photos or assess roof damage from drone footage. Now the Y Combinator startup has raised $2 million from Susa Ventures, Box Group, SV Angel, Metamorphic and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang's AME Cloud.