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Images and Inspiration With AI: Pinterest’s Jeremy King

2023/8/15
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Jeremy King:Pinterest 的使命是帮助用户创造热爱的生活,平台致力于成为用户寻找灵感和创意的目的地。平台使用人工智能和机器学习技术,为每个用户提供个性化的、非缓存的结果,每秒进行数百万次 AI 推理。Pinterest 的工程团队规模相对较小,但人才济济,在计算机视觉和图数据库领域拥有世界一流的专家。Pinterest 从根本上依赖机器学习和人工智能,几乎所有功能都与机器学习系统相关联。Pinterest 使用近邻图数据库来建立图像网络,实现高效的关联搜索。Pinterest 利用先进的机器学习环境来提升用户参与度,并开发新的购物功能。Pinterest 将生成式 AI 的应用分为三个方面:提升团队效率、改进图像识别和创造新功能。Pinterest 的图像识别技术基于嵌入式技术,随着模型的改进,其准确性和细节程度不断提高。Pinterest 的核心优势在于帮助用户发现他们可能都不知道自己想要的东西,而不仅仅是寻找已知商品。Pinterest 既使用现成的基础模型,也构建特定领域的模型以提高准确性和成本效益。生成式 AI 可以用于创造不存在的图像,这与 Pinterest 强调灵感的理念相符,尤其是在艺术和装饰等领域。Pinterest 在包容性搜索和结果方面投入大量精力,例如开发发型和肤色识别技术,以提供更精准和多样化的搜索结果。Pinterest 最引以为傲的 AI 成就之一是包容性产品功能,特别是发型搜索功能,因为它在业界首创并获得了用户积极的反馈。尽管技术条件已经具备,但普及的通用翻译工具仍然受到形式因素的限制。

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Jeremy King introduces Pinterest as a platform for inspiration, detailing how it helps users find ideas for various aspects of their lives.

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Jeremy King leads a team of 1,400 passionate engineers working on the continuous improvement of Pinterest’s image-driven platform. With a background that includes heading up a translation team at eBay and overseeing the technology behind Walmart’s U.S. retail stores and e-commerce business, Jeremy is now responsible for technology operations at Pinterest. To support the company’s mission to inspire people to “create a life that they love,” he and his team rely on advanced AI, machine learning, and a graph database to index and build a network of images so users can find inspiration — particularly when they aren’t completely sure what they’re looking for.

On this episode, Jeremy joins Sam and Shervin to talk about some recent advances Pinterest has made in the image-recognition space and shares his views on how generative AI will transform image-based content like Pinterest’s. Read the episode transcript here).

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Guest bio:

Jeremy King is senior vice president of technology at Pinterest, where he leads the company’s technical vision and the engineering organization responsible for building and scaling a visual discovery engine.

Before joining Pinterest, he was CTO and senior vice president at Walmart, where he led the team responsible for the technology behind U.S. retail stores and e-commerce for Walmart and Jet, and oversaw customer, merchant, and supply chain technologies across cloud and data platforms. King has also held executive-level technology roles at Walmart Labs, LiveOps, and eBay.

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