Boston firm’s artificial intelligence technology may have broader applications
A Boston company called Neurala is teaching body cameras worn by police officers to detect suspicious people or locate missing children faster than the human eye.
The company uses artificial intelligence to distinguish different objects: a person from a pet, for example, or a bench from a street light. That can be programmed into a camera to help pick out a person in a crowd based on an identifying object — a brightly-colored hat, for example — and it may soon be able to distinguish facial features as well.
