Facial Recognition Integrates With IFTTT (techcrunch.com)

Trueface.ai, the stealthy facial recognition startup that's backed by 500 Startups and a slew of angel investors, is integrating with IFTTT to allow developers to start playing around with its technology. TechCrunch reports: Chief executive Shaun Moore tells me that the integration with IFTTT represents the first time that facial recognition technology will be made available to the masses without the need to understand complex code. The company initially started as both a hardware and software vendor, but back in 2017 Moore said that the company stripped out its hardware component and focused on its software. Focusing on digital identification and verification tools, Trueface.ai sells technology that it says can be used to verify a request to open a bank account or for digital document notarization. "We can do that remotely and verify proof of possession and identity," says Moore. The goal, says Moore, is to make facial recognition available to everybody. And IFTTT's integration is one step to make that happen, because it will familiarize product developers and makers with the toolkit, Moore says.

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What the hell is this?

[nuckfuts]

Firstly, what the hell is IFTTT? Secondly, is this some kind of ad?

Re:What the hell is this?

[dohzer]

Inverse Fourier Transform Transform Transform.

Re:What the hell is this?

[FatdogHaiku]

https://play.google.com/store/...

Re:What the hell is this?

[glitch!]

So if a single Fourier transform is analogous to taking the first derivative of a function, does this imply going three deep and then (for some reason) uncompressing the result?

Sorry, but the explanation eludes me.

Re:What the hell is this?

[LordKronos]

IF This Then That. It's a handy little app whose sole purpose is to tie into different networks, systems, monitors, etc, and then run a set of rules. When it see something, it does something else. If theres a post on my favorite subreddit, send me an email. If I leave the house, then turn down the thermostat. If I arrive home, turn on the lights. If I reach a certain location, email a person to let them know I'll be arriving in 15 minutes. If I receive a text message, archive it to a google drive spreadsheet. If the train is running late, send me a notification. And so in. It ties into all sort of systems...google apps, social media, appliances and home automation, dominos pizza, github, transportation services, and more.

Re:What the hell is this?

[Anonymous Coward]

It is an advertisement for a service that nobody wants or needs. The developer is desperate for attention.

Re:What the hell is this?

[omnichad]

It's a kludging tool that takes boring APIs and mashes them together like peanut butter and Spam.

Re:What the hell is this?

[Gravis Zero]

Inverse Fourier Transform Transform Transform.

FYI, that's the Inverse Fourier Transform for people with OCD. with OCD. with OCD. ;) ;) ;)

Re: What the hell is this?

[sound vision]

It sounds like a circle jerk of a startup backed by 500 startups. That's the most I can put together from this article.

Re:What the hell is this?

[HeckRuler]

"If this then that"

It's a collection of scripts that do automated tasks for people that are too stupid to write bash scripts to do it for themselves. It's "value add" aspect is that it handles log-ins for various accounts. So if you want to do a daily search of slashdot for any mention of Elon and mail you a summary.

The downside is that it's not only closed source, it's doing the mystic startup "We're too hip to tell you just wtf is going on" sort of way. I'm not real sure why companies do this. I think they think if investors realize this is nothing new and anyone can do it then they wouldn't invest. But not only do they hide what they do and how they do it, the only way they tell you a damn thing is if you sign up and register. It's a shifty startup making a walled garden of scripts that has all your account passwords.

But it's probably helpful for some people. Bash does kinda suck and handling keys is hard.

Re:What the hell is this?

[HeckRuler]

This is an advertisement. Who are you and why are you shilling?

I propose a new Slashdot Comments Filter...

[Mister Liberty]

One that lets me set a numeric range of user ID's.

Re:I propose a new Slashdot Comments Filter...

[omnichad]

You could easily do that with a jQuery-based bookmarklet.

$('.uid a:contains( 769145 )').closest('li').hide();

Just keep adding lines until you have everyone in there.

Wow a backed startup

[110010001000]

Backed by angel investors AND 500 Startups? Must be pretty important. Does it have a Blockchain? If not, I'm less interested. But it is AI right?

Astroturf

[goombah99]

move along. this is just astrotruf

Re:So the "inner platform effect" for programming

[LordKronos]

You don't quite get it. Yes it's "dumbed down"....down to the level where every person with no program ability and who hasn't even written a hello world application can "program" it. Do you bitch that commercial airlines are just dumbed down so that every idiot who doesn't know how to land a plane can fly?

So that's the point of this: simple programing-like features without any requirement of being able to program. But even if you do know how to program, if the features you are interested in are supported, it's very simple to do. Want to access your wifi thermostate? No digging into APIs, installing modules, trial and error coding and debugging, finding it doesn't work because you forgot to handle an error condition that only occasionally shows up, etc. Nope, you don't need any of that. Just select your supported device, sign in to the service account, and then click on the action or event you are interested in. It takes seconds instead of hours or days figuring all the bits and pieces out.