In Brief: AI, Big Data and kids
Biometrics and machine learning may be a boon to business – a big threat to kids.
Biometrics and machine learning may be a boon to business – a big threat to kids.
The News Gods took slight pity and delivered one modest piece of news today: an $8 million Series A from Glue, an AI-driven system that self-generates loyalty programs for small businesses. Fairly cool and highly useful, since few small companies have the skills to do that for themselves.
The AppsFlyer-Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) survey asked: 1) How aware marketers are of Apple’s Identifier for Advertising (IDFA) changes that will require apps to get consumer consent before transmitting data to third parties, and 2) how problematic those changes would be. While 37% reported not being familiar at all or not being very familiar with the changes prior to the survey; 56% of all thought the impact would be negative, but of those already familiar, 73% thought it would have a strong negative impact.
If robots wrote the news, would they write about other robots? I ask because there’s been a suspicious burst of items about AI-powered writing tools, just when live journalists might have set things on autopilot so they could sneak out early for the holiday. Top of the list: writing-suggestion platform Grammarly just raised $200 million at a $13 billion valuation, doubling total funding to $400 million.