SparkAI

New York, NY-based AI company resolving edge cases for autonomous robotics systems operating in the real world.[1][2]

Overview

SparkAI is a New York, NY-based AI company resolving edge cases for autonomous robotics systems operating in the real world [1]. The company sells a service combining trained human specialists with technology to resolve edge cases, false positives and other AI exceptions live in production for companies launching and scaling automation and robotics products [2]. SparkAI branded its offering "Last Mile Automation," whereby a customer's AI model calls SparkAI on an edge case or low-confidence prediction, and SparkAI systems and people review the event in real time, returning a decision and corrected ground truth data in seconds [3]. The service deploys instantly via REST API or through a Python SDK [4]. SparkAI listed use cases including precision agriculture, solar inspection, automated checkout, eCommerce fulfillment, drone delivery, retail inventory management, autonomous tractors, wind farm inspection and driver alertness monitoring [5]. The company stated its mission as "Cognition in Every Machine," seamlessly intertwining human cognition with AI logic to help intelligent machines make confident decisions in moments of uncertainty [6].

SparkAI branded its offering "Last Mile Automation": a customer's AI model calls SparkAI on an edge case or low-confidence prediction, SparkAI systems and people review the event in real time, and "A decision and corrected ground truth data are returned in seconds". [3]

SparkAI said it deployed "instantly via REST API" or through a Python SDK, invoked as resolve_with_sparkai(data, program). [4]

Recent developments

  • In December 2022 SparkAI's company page listed nine open roles, all remote in the US: Back-end Engineer, Back-end Engineer (API), Front-end Engineer, Full-stack Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Product Manager (Augmented Cognition), Product Marketing Manager and Director of Sales.[7]

Focus

  • SparkAI listed use cases including precision agriculture, solar inspection, automated checkout, eCommerce fulfillment, drone delivery, retail inventory management, autonomous tractors, wind farm inspection and driver alertness monitoring.[5]
  • SparkAI stated its mission as "Cognition in Every Machine", seamlessly intertwining "human cognition with AI logic, to help intelligent machines make confident decisions in moments of uncertainty".[6]

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