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Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human
An anonymous reader writes "BRS Labs has created a technology it calls Behavioral Analytics which uses cognitive reasoning, much like the human brain, to process visual data and to identify criminal and terroristic activities. Built on a framework of cognitive learning engines and computer vision, AISight, provides an automated and scalable surveillance solution that analyzes behavioral patterns, activities and scene content without the need for human training, setup, or programming."
...that somewhere else in the world, there is a young, badass mother fighting off robots from the future that were designed to look like my Governor in a heroic attempt to destroy this new technology along with her scrappy, but as-of-yet slightly immature son....
At least, I think that's where we are in the time-line right?
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
...does it run racial profiling?
THL phish sticks
If it really think like a human, the main feature will be to automatically upload videos of people having sex in elevators on the web.
The "machine learning engine" is a "datacenter" (warehouse) full of cheap African laborers who are all watching the cameras.
(this is a joke, it just isn't funny, and it is meant to illustrate a point. See the next line): God/nature/FSM/evolution/al gore/$deity has done a pretty damn good job at building our brains, why are we trying to reinvent that wheel in a computer?
Because the owners of those brains get all whiny when you try to stick them in jars and make them solve the problems you want to solve, rather than sitting around watching porn? Really, sticking a bunch of brains in a 19" rack is harder than you'd think.
Male?
Ooh, low cut top! Zoom zoom zoom!
Wait, the wind is picking up! Initiate scan for pleated skirts!
Or female?
Ooh, there's a sale over there! *zoom* Do they have my colour?
Wait, that handbag's a knockoff! *Dials DHS*