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Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity
Repton writes with news of a company, Behavioral Recognition Systems, that has received 16 patents on a new video surveillance application that can convert video images into machine-readable language, and then analyze them for anomalies that suggest suspicious behavior in the camera's field of view. The software can 'recognize' up to 300 objects and establish a baseline of activity. It should go on sale in September. "...the BRS Labs technology will likely create a fair number of false positives, [the CEO] concedes. 'We think a three-to-one ratio of alerts to actual events is what the market will accept,' he says. 'We could be wrong.'"
As long as the cops don't beat too many people too extremely for false positive behavior I can't see where this could be a problem. And Homeland Security is already working on getting some Executive Orders written up that will make it a crime to act in ways that cause false positives, so there should be no false positives in the near future (by definition they will be real positives). Problem solved.
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Computers are already smart enough to talk to us. They just don't have anything interesting to say.
Why don't you try starting a conversation?
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Abnormal activity? You mean like a slashdotter outside, in the sun, with a date?
Table-ized A.I.
Computers are already smart enough to talk to us.
Do computers worry you ?
They just don't have anything interesting to say.
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
Why don't you try starting a conversation?
Do you believe I don't try starting a conversation ?
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