Thought Leaders in Big Data: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Give me a good use case of deep learning that you would apply that technology to and which is an interesting problem to solve. In other words, share with me a pain point that deep learning would solve elegantly.

Dave Copps: I think that the use case I find most fascinating is visual. We’re getting into machine vision where computers can actually see something and recognize the object. We’re getting to the point where you can pull out your phone, just face it towards the world, and have it come back and tell you exactly where you are and things that are around you. Once computers can go beyond words where they can start to understand images and start to relate those images to knowledge, it gets really interesting. Our phones can become instantly connected with anything just by pointing our phone at something. It’s not something we’ll ever do. Deep learning is certainly a space I would encourage people to go into.

Sramana Mitra: What stage is Brainspace at? Are you a venture-funded company? What is the genesis of Brainspace?

Dave Copps: We are venture-funded. Our largest investor is Medina Capital. Manny Medina is the principal.

Sramana Mitra: I know him. I’ve known him for a long time.

Dave Copps: He’s our principal investor. We were Medina’s third investment. They put $10 million into Brainspace two years ago. We love Manny. He’s an incredible person. He brings a big thinking mentality to the company that anything’s possible.

Sramana Mitra: Terrific. Thank you for taking the time.

This segment is part 5 in the series : Thought Leaders in Big Data: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace
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