Martin Treiber, Author at IKANGAI

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times

21. January 202021. January 2020Martin Treiber 2449 views 1 minute

How do you feel about the end of privacy on public places? In public transport? When you can identfy every stranger that passes by? When every stranger can indentify you without your knowledge? While this might be still a bit away, the NY Times reports that a start-up called Clearview AI is using a massive...

The case for … ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones

16. January 202016. January 2020Martin Treiber 933 views 1 minute

We’ve participated in SCEWC in Barcelona last year. The amount of technology that is supposed to makes a city smart is staggering. For monitoring ever movement in the city millions of sensors are positioned in cities. Some of them look like from some dystopian future. What’s missing are actuators that physically enforce some desired behavior...

Personal Data Is Valuable. Give Pricing Power to the People | WIRED

7. January 20207. January 2020Martin Treiber 1210 views 1 minute

Wired article by Olaf Groth, Tobias Straube and Dan Zehr discussing a market that establishes a price for privacy-assured data and returns a fair share of that value to the people: Today, people fuel the digital economy with vast streams of data but have virtually no power to demand fair compensation for it. The companies...

Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

5. November 20195. November 2019Martin Treiber 993 views 1 minute

Humans are almost hardwired to recognize faces. It’s important for us to tell people apart and we barely think about it. But the recognition process is far from being understood. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have compared how deep neural networks recognize faces and compared this with activation pattern data from...

Chatbots on Smartphones: It’s not a love story, but it’s worth trying

2. November 20192. November 2019Martin Treiber 687 views 2 minutes

It’s easy, you might say. In fact, there are several ways to use chatbots on messenger platforms (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) or to integrate them on the mobile website or apps via widget. However, these methods have several problems: 1. Mix of business and private. If you use a messenger platform for your business, you...

Wie bringt man einen Chatbot auf das Smartphone?

2. November 20192. November 2019Martin Treiber 808 views 2 minutes

Ist doch ganz einfach, möchte man meinen. In der Tat gibt es mehrere Möglichkeiten, Chatbots auf Messenger-Plattformen (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) zu verwenden oder auf der mobilen Webseite bzw. in Apps per Widget zu integrieren. Diese Methoden haben allerdings mehrere Probleme: 1. Mix von Business und privaten. Nützt man eine Messenger-Plattform für sein Business, konkurriert...

Why News-Pull is no Solution for WhatsApp Newsletters

1. November 20191. November 2019Martin Treiber 706 views 2 minutes

With the approaching end of WhatsApp newsletters, companies are looking for alternatives to prevent the loss of their WhatsApp newsletter audience. One solution is the switch to News-Pull. Here the subscriber must open WhatsApp, switch to the newsletter channel and send a message (for example, a letter). Only then will the subscriber receive the newsletter...

5 things we learned about AI this year – MIT Technology Review Insights

30. August 201930. August 2019Martin Treiber 1425 views 1 minute

The five main results of studies MIT Technology Review Insights has conducted on AI: Sixty-three percent of businesses in a worldwide survey to the MIT Technology Review Global Panel have a centralized AI plan or are using AI on a case by case basis. Companies are making big AI-driven gains in efficiency and customer satisfaction....