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AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras
Barence writes "UK researchers are working on fitting CCTV cameras with artificial intelligence, allowing them to more quickly respond to crimes.
The technology, being developed by University of Portsmouth scientists, would allow cameras to "hear" violent sounds and react, swiveling quickly in the direction of a broken window or somebody shouting abusively for example, before alerting an operator.
The artificial intelligence powering the camera would also be able to respond to visual cues such as fights, or violent behaviour."
They'd be completely useless against ninjas, and ninjas are everywhere.
Would that be swivelling around the like Eye of Sauron did when Frodo put on the ring on the rim of Mount Doom?
I'm just askin'
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If this technology were ready for prime-time the cameramen for NHL would be out of a job.
Shhhhh dont tell of their weakness.
Nonsense. The computers on CSI are able to filter out those crappy images, and produce wonderful quality 20 megapixel images from .3 megapixel over compressed jpgs. I'm sure the brits have similar technology.
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Why? It's not like any of us will ever go aboveground to take advantage of this shortcoming.
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I read that title as AL not AI. :-)
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Hyper-Chicken: As the surveillance camera for the bank what all the judge was a-jawing about, could y'all tell us what you done seen the day of the crime?
Camera: Well, let's see. My memory's a little fuzzy, but it went exactly like this:
It projects a picture of Fry and Bender taking the money from Roberto
Hyper-Chicken: Your Honour, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients.
They should attach chain guns to the swiveling AI cameras.
In b4 "I for one welcome <chain gun firing sounds, screams, silence>"
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Subject shouting abusively, recommend immediate ASBO and follow up with sustained surveillance for two months.
Nonsense. Giant cameras armed with friggin' laser beams could easily save the victims.
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Yeah right pretty much the same way you'd distract a human CCTV camera operator or a security guard. How long before they train it to catch people shagging? Will it have cleavage detection? If you mod me down I probably wont even notice
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What happens instead of AI-CCTV, they actually hire police with REAL intelligence? Or is the notion of police officer with intelligence clearly nuts?
I it just me, or has the term "AI" been watered down over the years?It seems to me that the HAL-9000 wouldn't have had any of the problems that have been suggested here.
And Deep Thought would have pointed out all 42 of the criminals before they even decided to do the deed.
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Interesting, tell me more about the Turing test.
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