Hi, everyone!
As part of our celebrations for Cam Plus turning two, we’re hosting an AMA with the Cam Plus team this Wednesday, August 3rd, at 1 PM Pacific! We’re excited to take your questions and hope to see you all there!
In the meantime, be sure to check out our weeklong Cam Plus offers here. You can also brush up on our recent AMA questions + answers by browsing our AMA Archive wiki page here 
I’m open to illustrations of what the ‘birth’ of a digital service might have looked like (whence did it emerge, for instance…) 
, what % of correction does each feedback give? For example, AI has a very tough time distinguishing chickens as a pet and instead thinks their people.As a Biologist with a minor in Genetics, I would be much more interested in what the conception looks like. 
See above for the answers given to most of the following:
Questions I am thinking of asking:
Since one of the main parts of Cam Plus is AI, how is your team different from the AI Team, what other responsibilities do you have?
Does someone specifically review the submitted videos before giving them to the AI to make sure they are good examples to train with and are submitted with the proper tags to ensure the AI isn’t getting bad data? Or are event videos used the way they are submitted? Are all submissions used, or just selected ones?
How can Wyze improve Cam Plus notifications? Currently, Wyze sends 1 notification per event and the only order of operations (detection hierarchy/priority) is based on the earliest frame with a detection. Therefore, if a car or pet triggers an event or is detected first, and then a few seconds later, a person arrives in the event and is detected later, we will only be notified about the first detection and not realize from the notification that there was also a person who came into the event. Yes, the event tags will be updated if we filter events later, but the notification can mislead us into thinking there was no human in the event. Is it possible to retroactively update/modify a push notification? Can you send a second notification if a person is later detected? This might be especially critical for Cam Plus Pro security.
What are the chances of getting an event Filter option that lists all events that qualified as notifications? To explain why: One flaw with the notification system, is that as soon as we click on one of them to view it, all the others are automatically cleared, and we no longer know what other notifications there were or which events to look up. And the current filters are inadequate because we might want to know person on some cameras but not all, and pet on others but not all, etc, and so you have to manually make several configuration checks before you can get through all the events that would’ve been notifications but were cleared out when you viewed the first one in the list.
What other new features or benefits do you have in mind for adding to Cam Plus in the future (besides Friendly Faces and the Smart Vision which you announced last year would be coming out eventually) ?
When will we get the V3 firmware update for Cam Plus notifications like the V2’s have where we have separate notification toggles for Person, Pet, Vehicle, and Package instead of 1 toggle for all selected detections or none of them? Ex: I might want pets detected as well as people but only want notifications about the people (don’t need notifications about pets, but might want to search events for them later). V3s can’t do this like V2’s yet and we were told a firmware update for this was needed.
Do you have any Video Playback Scrubbing updates coming up that you can tell us about?
The AI team told us that now the AI compares the detections zone against the motion region and the AI will only tag the video if there is an overlap. What happens if half of a person is within the detection and half the person is in the blocked-out zone? (ex: feet on sidewalk, but the road behind it is blocked out, so the upper body of the person is blocked out) Will the AI consider things outside of the detection to detect a person that is partially in a detection zone and connected to something within the detection zone? Or is it strictly limited to viewing objects 100% in the detection zone boundaries (thus not seeing a head, arms, etc and thus not a person)?
Steve McIrvin mentioned you “have specific products on the horizon that will address a lot of the value that RTSP can provide”…can you elaborate on any of this? Will the Cam Plus team have something to do with future RTSP-like updates?
The AI team indicated they are working on some degree of local/edge AI features for the future. How will this impact your Cam Plus Team if more detections are done locally on the hardware in the future?
Both Steve McIrvin and the AI team indicated that 2K cameras are on your radar for future devices. How do you expect this might affect Cam Plus? Will there be more limitations on 2K? Will the resolution be lower? Will you raise prices to compensate since your profit margins are kept low? Will things stay the same?
Can you give us some statistics about Cam Plus? (Such as retention/churn rates, or any kind of numbers and averages, how often do people keep the trials and for how long, etc)
Will friendly faces ever be expanded to allow more than 10 faces?
With recent articles about other camera companies selling or freely giving facial recognition or video event data to law enforcement without user consent, will you please take the time to publicly state Wyze’s stance on the subject? Also, if Wyze received a court order (warrant or subpoena) for a user’s data, would you inform the user about it as long as you weren’t court-ordered not to?
Beans:
When will Friendly faces move to Cam Plus?
When will Cam Plus Pro be compatible with HMS?
When will Webview be free for everyone?
When will the new smart support tool be available to everyone instead of just Cam Plus users?
Not sure why, but watching this last night I thought of you:
It’s not 1-1, just a soft but satisfying association.
For those of you who don’t use Reddit, if you scroll up to the 3rd comment (thread activity 4) above in this thread, I have copied a summary for the AMA up there for you to be able to read.
I still linked to the original answer with each post, but this time I didn’t take the time to list the name of the employee that answered in each quote this time around as
Some really great info in this AMA!
Great job carver 
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The ai team answered a lot of questions! But there were also a lot left unanswered. Next time. Looking forward to some of the changes they mentioned!
The next time they have an AMA, you can go review what questions they left unanswered. I did that for this one to help give me ideas of more things to ask, and asked several that weren’t answered in previous events and they answered some of those this time. They just have limited time, so sometimes asking a question again later means they’ll get to it the next time.
I love learning new info from them though.
Yea, there’s a lot of questions and only a few of them. Very interesting and useful info.
Do AI Team announce when a new iteration (benefiting from examples submitted by users) is released? Is it released every x weeks on x day?
It’s monthly, but not necessarily a set day. Sometimes Jimmy had told us when it releases, but there isn’t generally an announcement.
Thanks, Carver!
Mods:
Would this be approved as a Wishlist topic (requesting that it be announced on a regular basis?)
Or?
I would vote for that to be added to announcements Though:
[The wishlist] is where you can request features and products
Since it’s not adding a feature to the app, nor is it asking for a new physical product, this is probably more of something else to just suggest to @WyzeJasonJ directly to bring up with the AI team (ie: see if they’ll agree to inform him and see if the others agree to add AI updates to announcements similar to App and firmware updates. It makes sense in that context.
I do know it is once a month on average, they do not always announce it but I can make a push for it.
