Ring’s CEO says his cameras can almost ‘zero out crime’ within the next 12 months
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Ring's CEO Jamie Siminoff believes AI advancements will help achieve the company's safety mission, enabling innovations like searching neighbors' footage for lost pets and potentially reducing crime.
Jamie Siminoff has returned to Ring, the company he founded, with a renewed focus on its mission statement to "Make neighborhoods safer." Talking to The Verge ahead of the release of his new book Ding Dong, Siminoff says he believes the new wave of AI could finally help him fulfill that vision.
"When I left, I felt like Ring had gotten to a place where it was linear innovation," he says. But new features like Search Party, an AI-powered tool that can search your neighbors' Ring camera footage for lost dogs, are the type of innovations he always dreamt of but couldn't execute. "Now, with AI, we can," he says.
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