It’s 2020—Why Aren’t You Mining Metadata?
Looking back three years at the 2017 NAB Show, one of the notable new technology trends was the influx of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and services. Perhaps the word “appeared” is understating what happened—IBM showed up with a 12-foot diameter, supercomputer-esque display of Watson and the AI services that it (or he?) provided. Microsoft and Quantum also devoted show space to this new AI technology. The takeaway was that there were AI engines—learning machines—brains—that were hungry for video content. Few knew what the implications were at the time.