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FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network
(www.forbes.com)
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A four Billion dollar start-up? Great googly moogly.
Flock Safety, here's their self description from their website.
Flock's city-wide Surveillance platform sounds more like it.
No wonder it has such a valuation, the government has a raging hardon at the prospect of constant surveillance and monitoring, nationwide.
It’s a bribe within a grift within corruption, surrounded by hype!
Holy hell that's dystopian as fuck.
You're damn right they are worth billions. They synergized cognitive computing via blockchain with AI through sentiment analysis and deep learning. Just wait until they add a touch of intelligent automation, machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing. Chefs kiss this unicorn is gonna be worth trillions.
No Metaverse? Im out
I saw a video from Lehto's Law about this yesterday. They operate in multiple companies and also work with Kaiser Permanente in the same way they work with FedEx.
If you calculate the worth of any startup company based on projected growth consistent with Amazon, Google, and Facebook every startup is worth billions of dollars.
Sure, sure, plus ours is checks notes . . . leveraging . . the power of AL. I mean AI. Yeah we’re totally taking AI, right, and, like, leveraging it. For . . monetization. Next-gen.
Money, plz
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