| 词条 | Figure Eight Inc. |
| 释义 |
| name = Figure Eight Inc. | logo = Attached_to_figure-eight-dot-com.png | type = | genre = | foundation = {{Start date|2007|12}} | founder = Lukas Biewald Chris Van Pelt | location_city = San Francisco, California | location_country = United States | location = | key_people = | area_served = | industry = Machine learning and Artificial intelligence | products = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees =50-149 | divisions = | subsid = | owner = Lukas Biewald | parent = | slogan = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.figure-eight.com/}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }}Figure Eight (formerly known as Dolores Lab, CrowdFlower) is a human-in-the-loop machine learning and artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. The company has raised $58 million in venture capital.[1] It uses human intelligence to do simple tasks such as transcribing text or annotating images to train machine learning algorithms.[2] Figure Eight's software automates tasks for machine learning algorithms, which can be used to improve catalog search results, approve photos or support customers and the technology can be used in the development of self-driving cars, intelligent personal assistants and other technology that uses machine learning.[3] The company is a Machine Learning Competency Partner in Amazon's AWS Machine Learning Partner Solutions program.{{what|date=July 2018}}[4] Figure Eight works with companies such as Autodesk, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Cisco Systems, GitHub, Mozilla, VMware,[3] eBay, Etsy, Toyota and American Express.[5] HistoryEstablishmentOriginally called Dolores Labs, the company was founded in 2007 by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt.[6] They found a need for temporary workers doing simple tasks that could not be automated.[7] After experimenting with pictures and questions related to them on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing internet marketplace, they encouraged others to participate in their experimentation through the site Facestat. They collected 20 million assessments of people's faces within three months and began to add queries for companies needing data such as event listing site Zvents and O'Reilly Media.[8] Dolores Labs, initially in a loft space in the Mission District briefly moved to an office on Valencia Street which it outgrew in nine months.[10] They felt the name Dolores Labs was too research-oriented and sounded like experimentation, so the company was renamed CrowdFlower. In 2009, CrowdFlower held an official launch at the TechCrunch50 conference. A sleek logo replaced its previous mint-eating alligator. The company moved to its third office in the Mission in early 2010.[9] The name Dolores Labs was adopted by Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures who turned the name and previous office space into a co-working and startup incubator space.[10] Disaster reliefIn 2009, the company provided work for refugees in Kenya who completed microtasks; iPhone users donated their time by checking for accuracy through the app Give Work.[11] After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, CrowdFlower again worked with Samasource to help Haitians find work through the application GiveWork.[12][13] Funding and expansionIn 2009, the company had raised a total of $1.2 million in seed funding from investors Dave McClure, co-founder of Cloudera Jeff Hammerbacher, and FF Angel.[14] In 2010, it raised a $5 million Series A round of funding from investors including Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.[15] Founders Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt were included on Inc.'s 30 Under 30 list in 2010.[16] In 2011, CrowdFlower raised a Series B funding round that totaled $9.3 million and included investor Harmony Venture Partners. The company's Series C funding, which closed in September 2014, totaled $12.5 million.[17] In 2014, CrowdFlower was named Best in Show at FinovateFall.[18][19] The company established a scientific advisory board in 2016, which made up of entrepreneur Barney Pell, founder and CEO of Kaggle Anthony Goldbloom, and staff research engineer at Google, Pete Warden.[20] That same year, it raised a $10 million Series D funding round led by Microsoft Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures.[21] The following year, CrowdFlower raised $20 million in a venture capital round led by Industry Ventures and included Salesforce Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, and Trinity Ventures.[22] The company announced its international expansion with an office in Israel in October 2016.[23] CrowdFlower was named to the 2017 list of Cool Vendors released by Gartner.[24] That same year, it received AWS Machine Learning Competency status from Amazon Web Services.[25] In 2018, CrowdFlower was included on the Forbes list of 100 Companies Leading the Way in A.I.[26] On March 3rd, 2018, CrowdFlower announced that the company was going to be rebranded as Figure Eight.[27] The company also shifted its focus to machine learning as well as artificial intelligence. TechnologyIn June 2012, the company released version 2.0 of its Real Time Foto Moderator which checks photographs for adult or inappropriate content. The new version included two different "rule sets" to determine appropriate photos including a stricter rule set and one that is more flexible. The update also added an option for moderators to specify why a photo is rejected.[28] That same year, Parse partnered with CrowdFlower to add photo moderation to its backend services designed for mobile app development.[29] In November 2014, CrowdFlower announced that it was releasing support for eight new languages crowds to its platform, making twelve available language crowds at the time.[30] In 2015, CrowdFlower AI launched at the Rich Data Summit. The AI platform combines machine learning and human-labeled training data to create data sets used for predictive models.[31] Microsoft partnered with CrowdFlower in October 2016 to create a "human-in-the-loop" platform using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.[32] In May 2017, CrowdFlower released an enhancement for its Computer Vision software, announced during the Train AI conference, designed to simplify and speed up the process of annotating images.[33]ApplicationsIn 2015, CrowdFlower announced the Data For Everyone initiative, which included a collection of data sets available to researchers and entrepreneurs.[34] Figure Eight holds TrainAI, a conference held in San Francisco, California. In 2017, the company launched AI for Everyone at the TrainAI conference.[35] AI For Everyone is a contest run by Figure Eight for non-profit ventures and scientific research that aims to improve society by awarding $1 million in prize money that will go toward projects using AI.[36] Six winners have been announced as of February 2018 to projects ranging from computer vision for cancer research to natural language processing for hate speech.[37] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2016/03/07/machine-learning-needs-a-human-in-the-loop/#7caa86db4cab|title=Machine Learning Needs A Human-In-The-Loop|author=Bridgwater, Adrian|date=March 7, 2016|work=Forbes| accessdate=April 13, 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/crowdflower-series-d/|title=CrowdFlower raises $10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor|date=June 7, 2016|author=Ha, Anthony|publisher=Tech Crunch|access-date=April 13, 2018}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/crowdflower-founder-learned-from-travis-kalanick-2017-10|title=Founder of $110 million startup CrowdFlower: I'm forever grateful to Travis Kalanick|author=Bort, Julie|date=October 15, 2017|work=Business Insider|accessdate=April 13, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/28/aws-launches-new-partner-programs-for-networking-and-machine-learning-specialists/|title=AWS launches new partner programs for networking and machine learning specialists|author=Lardinois, Frederic|date=November 28, 2017|work=Tech Crunch|accessdate=April 13, 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/crowdflower-combines-crowdsourcing-and-machine-intelligence-1497267002|title=CrowdFlower Combines Crowdsourcing and Machine Intelligence|author=Zakrzewski, Cat|date=June 12, 2017|work=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=April 13, 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/crowdflower-lukas-biewald-returns/|title=CrowdFlower CO-Founder Lukas Biewald Becomes CEO (Again)}} 7. ^{{cite book| title=Contemporary Marketing, 2013 Update| author=Louis E. 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^{{cite web|url=http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/crowdsourcing-the-haiti-relief/ |title=Crowdsourcing the Haiti Relief | The CrowdFlower Blog |publisher=Blog.crowdflower.com |date=2010-01-29 |accessdate=2012-01-31}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leila-chirayath-janah/samasource-in-haiti-rebui_b_426311.html |title=Samasource and CrowdFlower in Haiti: Rebuilding After a Crisis |publisher=Huffington Post |date=2010-03-19 |accessdate=2018-06-06}} 14. ^ {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141003115026/http://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/1eef0f51bb85bec2e35ccc0c8c92434d/investors|date=October 3, 2014}} 15. ^ {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923065712/http://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/79e4d6ac7a52028ef09eac66c4409aff|date=September 23, 2014}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.inc.com/30under30/2010/profile-lukas-biewald-chris-van-pelt-crowdflower.html|title=Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, Founders of Crowdflower}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=https://gigaom.com/2014/09/17/crowdflower-raises-12-5m-to-deliver-better-data-for-better-models/|title=CrowdFlower raises $12.5M to deliver better data for better models|author=Derrick Harris|work=gigaom.com}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.mx.com/moneysummit/here-are-the-7-finovatefall-winners-and-why-theyre-innovative-and-useful|title=How All 7 of This Year's FinovateFall Best of Show Winners Hit the Mark With Innovation and Utility}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://finovate.com/crowdflower-raises-20-million-bloom-ai-adoption/|title=CrowdFlower Raises $20 Million to Bloom AI Adoption}} 20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/08/crowdflower-scientific-advisory-board/|title=CrowdFlower announces a scientific advisory board as it works to combine AI and crowdsourcing|publisher=TechCrunch|author=Anthony Ha|date=6 November 2016}} 21. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2016/microsoft-ventures-invests-comfy-smart-building-app-crowdflower-ai-technology/|title=Microsoft Ventures invests in Comfy smart building app and CrowdFlower AI tech|publisher=GeekWire|author=Todd Bishop|date=6 June 2016}} 22. ^{{Cite web|url=https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/06/12/ai-augmented-crowdsourced-labor-company-crowdflower-raises-20m-funding/|title=AI-augmented crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower raises $20M for enterprise push|publisher=Silicon Angle|author=Kyt Dotson|date=12 June 2017}} 23. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crowdflower-expands-into-israel-300348600.html|title=CrowdFlower expands into Israel|publisher=PR Newswire|date=25 October 2016}} 24. ^{{cite web|url=https://blogs.gartner.com/svetlana-sicular/and-the-2017-cool-vendors-are/|title=And the 2017 Cool Vendors Are}} 25. ^{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-the-inaugural-aws-machine-learning-competency-partners/|title=Introducing the Inaugural AWS Machine Learning Competency Partners|publisher=AWS|author=Joseph Spisak|date=28 November 2017}} 26. ^{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2018/01/08/artificial-intelligence-ai-companies-invest-startups/|title=These 100 Companies Are Leading the Way in A.I.|publisher=Fortune|author=Nicolas Rapp|date=28 January 2018}} 27. ^{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/CrowdFlower/status/981198426464444416|title=CrowdFlower is now Figure Eight on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en}} 28. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/crowdflower-rtfm-2-0/|title=CrowdFlower's Photo Moderation Tool Gets A Little More Flexible}} 29. ^{{cite web| url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/parse-crowdflower-photo-moderation/|title=Parse Adds Crowdflower’s Photo Moderation To Its Mobile Backend Services}} 30. ^{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crowdflowers-data-enrichment-platform-now-150100983.html|title=CrowdFlower's Data Enrichment Platform Now Supports Eight New Languages}} 31. ^{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/07/crowdflower-raises-10-million-from-microsoft-and-others-to-bring-ai-to-data-science/|title=CrowdFlower raises $10 million from Microsoft and others to bring A.I. to data science}} 32. ^{{cite web|url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/10/17/crowdflower-partnership-with-microsoft-brings-power-of-human-in-the-loop-to-machine-learning/|title=CrowdFlower partnership with Microsoft brings power of ‘human-in-the-loop’ to machine learning}} 33. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crowdflower-announces-next-generation-computer-vision-solution-300459096.html|title=CrowdFlower Announces Next Generation Computer Vision Solution}} 34. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/03/crowdflower-data-for-everyone/|title=CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project Covering Everything From Climate Change To #ThatDress}} 35. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.devex.com/news/how-artificial-intelligence-might-help-achieve-the-sdgs-90293|title=How artificial intelligence might help achieve the SDGs}} 36. ^{{cite web|url=https://analyticsindiamag.com/top-5-ai-challenges-startups-programmers-participate-2018/|title=Top 5 AI Challenges For Startups & Programmers To Participate In 2018}} 37. ^{{cite web|url=https://americanentrepreneurship.com/technology-news/crowdflower-ai-for-everyone-challenge-announces-winners-and-opens-applications-for-next-round|title=CrowdFlower “AI for Everyone” Challenge Announces Winners and Opens Applications for Next Round}} 5 : Crowdsourcing|Outsourcing companies|Companies established in 2007|Companies based in San Francisco|Data companies |
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