5 ways computer vision could impact how we do AI

This is an exciting time for those of us in computer vision -- we're seeing it merge with AI to enable all kinds of new possibilities. AI needs data with which to learn and process, and as we move closer to more "human"-like AI, it will increasingly need visual data. "This is one of the reasons all the major companies are at war to own the visual data of our activities," said LDV Capital's Evan Nisselson. "To do that, they need to own the camera." Amazon recently added a camera to its Alexa-powered Echo, for example, and Google (Lens) and Facebook recently made new recent augmented reality announcements.