How AI is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
From: MIT Technology Review - May / June 2016 - page 65
By: Will Knight

Jiawei Gu, a youthful researcher at Baidu Research of Deep Learning in
Bejing, showed a wearable device Baidu has created to help blind or partially
sighted people navigate the world. Called DuLight, the device hooks onto your
ear like a Bluetooth headset, captures whatever’s directly in front of you,
and taps into a deep-learning-based image recognition system to identify it.

Jiawei pointed DuLight at a chair and potted plant, and it said: “Recognizing
… light plastic chair … recognizing … lush green potted plant.” When he
pointed the device at me, it said: “A man smiles, about 37 years old” (a
close guess). He said it could be configured to remember someone’s name and
identify that person later.

DuLight uses technologies in deep learning, image recognition and speech
recognition to help visually impaired people identifying people and objects
in their lives.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600988/how-ai-is-feeding-chinas-internet-dragon

Links:
DuLight (with video 3:55 - in Chinese with English subtitles)
http://dulight.baidu.com

Dulight - Eyes for visually impaired (video 1:17 in Chinese with with English
  subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5RcJ1JY3c