【雅虎】中国一家面部识别公司成为全球最具价值的人工智能创业公司 [美国媒体]

Chinesefacial recognition company becomes world's most valuable AI start-up

【雅虎】中国一家面部识别公司成为全球最具价值的人工智能创业公司



The Chinesegovernment's plans for mass surveillance using facial recognition have receiveda boost from one of the country's tech powerhouses, after Alibaba led a $600minvestment in SenseTime, which develops technology for tracking individuals.

中国官方通过面部识别技术提升国家监视系统（天眼）的计划近期有了大进展，一个国家技术团队成功开发出所需技术。公司名为商汤（SenseTime），主要从事个体识别与追踪的研究工作，这家公司曾经获得阿里巴巴公司6亿美元的C轮融资。

The companyis working on facial and object recognition technology that accurately can spotpeople using cameras, recently demonstrated on CCTV in Beijing.

该公司正在致力于发展面部和物体识别技术，最近在中国中央电视台进行了一次演示，这项技术可以准确地通过摄像头在茫茫人海中识别出目标人物。

Honda isusing SenseTime for its driverless car research and development and it is alsobeing used at shopping counters that allows customers to check-out using theirfaces.

本田公司使用了商汤的技术研究和发展无人驾驶汽车项目。一些商场专柜也开始使用这项技术，方便客户直接刷脸结账。

SenseTimealready smashed the record for AI funding, beating British competitor DeepMindwhich was bought by Google for an estimated 400m in 2014, and in 2017 received$410million in its second round of funding.

商汤公司目前已成为世界上最有价值的人工智能创业公司，一举击败了英国的竞争者DeepMind公司，2014年，DeepMind被谷歌收购，估价约4亿美元。2017年，商汤公司曾获得高通公司B轮融资4.1亿美元。

companydid not disclose its value but Reuters reported that insiders estimated thecompany could be worth $4.5bn.

该公司没有透露其估价，但据路透社报道，业内人士估计该公司可能价值45亿美元。



USuniversity Massachusetts Institute for Technology is working with SenseTime forits research into “human and machine intelligence”. It is already working with40 local governments in China which use its CCTV recognition, helping spotpeople of interest during festivals and in airports.

美国马萨诸塞州大学技术研究所与商汤一起从事“人类和机器智能化”的研究工作。在中国，已经有大约40个地方政府利用安装有该系统的闭路电视摄像机进行识别和定位，尤其是在节假日期间或者机场等人潮拥挤的地方进行搜寻工作。

SenseTime ispartly funded by Qualcomm, a chip-company that US president Donald Trumpblocked from what would have been one of the biggest technology mergers inhistory. Mr Trump quashed Qualcomm's planned purchase of another Americanchipmaker over concerns it would risk national security.

商汤公司的投资中有部分来自于由美国的高通芯片公司，这家公司所计划的有史以来最大规模的技术并购早些时候被总统唐纳德·特朗普阻止。总统先生否决了另一家美国芯片制造商收购高通的申请，担心这样做会危及国家安全。

Thepartnership would allow Qualcomm to use SenseTime's algorithms in smartphonesor devices using its chips.

由于与商汤公司的合作伙伴关系，高通未来可以在其智能手机和其他设备芯片上使用由商汤提供的算法。

China is hopingto become the international leader in AI, and industry which it hopes will beworth $63.3bn by 2025. It is already using facial recognition at borders todetect registration plates and drivers' faces.

中国希望成为人工智能领域的全球领跑者，预计到2025年，该行业的价值将达到633亿美元。当前，中国已经开始在边境上使用面部识别来检测车牌和驾驶员的面部特征。

It has beenestimated that AI could add an additional 630bn to the UK economy by 2035 anindependent review commissioned by the government as part of its IndustrialStrategy found.

据英国工业独立委员会估计，到2035年，人工智能产业作为其工业战略的一部分，将为英国额外提供6300亿英镑的经济增长量。


ClintEastwood
What couldpossibly go wrong with this technology?

这项技术可能出现什么问题？

Toadaly
Economicmight leads to technological dominance which leads to military dominance.....same story over and over through history. China is rising and will replacethe US as the next world superpower, because we're regulating, taxing, andspending ourselves into irrelevancy.

经济发展可以带来技术优势，技术优势可以提升军事优势。历史总是重复着相同的故事。中国正在快速上升，并将取代美国成为下一个世界超级大国，我们却在调控、征税和不相关事情中空耗己身。

NoMsCankles
a whole newdefinition to "big brother watching".

对“老大哥在看着你”的全新定义。

James
Nothing tosee here......... move along!!! Move along!!!

这里什么也没有，继续前进，继续前进！

joel b
Tough jobfor that software since they all look alike.

那个软件肯定很难做，因为他们看起来都一样。

GW
Wrong. Trumpdid not stop Qualcomm from purchasing another company. He stopped Broadcom (aChinese Company) from purchasing Qualcomm.

文中有一个错误。特朗普没有阻止高通收购另一家公司。他阻止了博通（一家中国公司）收购高通。
（译注：博通之前是美国公司，后来被新加坡安高华公司收购，安高华早年也是从惠普分出来的，并不是中国公司。）

roberts
I read anarticle several years ago about a city putting facial recognition in placearound the city, actually to cover the whole city, especially the subwaysystem. It was stated that they were buying the software from the people whonew civilian surveillance the best, Russia. Now we are hearing about acommunist totalitarian state going wholesale on facial recognition, just likethe ex communist Soviet Union. When is the US going to wake up and realize thatthese people aren't our friends, never have been. The people whining about Trumpwanting to put China in it's place with trade need to get on board. The globalelite such as Zuckerberg and his lot love the commie Chinese. Wake up Americaand start smelling some freedom.

几年前，我读了一篇文章，是关于一个城市进行面部识别，这套系统覆盖了整个城市，特别是地铁。有人说，中国从俄罗斯的民用监视人员那里购买了这些软件。现在，我们听到一个共产主义极权国家在全世界批发面部识别技术，就像前苏联这个共产主义联盟一样。美国什么时候才能清醒过来，认识到这些人不是我们的朋友？人们抱怨特朗普想和中国打贸易战，全球精英如扎克伯格爱死了共产中国。美国人，快点清醒吧！去呼吸一下自由的空气。

Evgene
Again storyabout our left friends promised only workers jobs will gone for china.... thenwhat happened, civil engineering jobs gone, now high tech moving out.....thanks to Clinton/Bush/Obama globalist policies

又是这样的新闻。左翼的朋友可是承诺过只会把工厂里低端工人的工作带去中国。现在发生了什么？我们失去了建筑工程行业的工作，现在连高科技的工作也在流失……真是感谢克林顿、布什、奥巴马这些全球主义者啊！

TRUMP trumpsObama
high valuecuz "they all rook arike"....

最有价值？高科技？只是因为他们都长得一样吧。

DAVID
So now onlyleftist antifa members will have privacy. Nice.

所以现在只有左翼反法西斯成员才能拥有隐私？真棒！

Now I See
Same company that I am about totopple right now with one simple suggestion: 3M dust masks. They wear them togo outside on smoky days already, anyway.

这家公司的面部识别技术很容易被推翻嘛，我只简单提一点：3M防尘口罩。毕竟他们出门都得带着口罩才能抵抗外面的烟雾弥漫。

John
Old News. Argus has been doingthis for 5 years already. A US company already has the tech.

老新闻了。阿尔戈斯已经做这行5年了。美国公司已经拥有了这项技术。