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Software Describes Surveillance Footage In AI-Generated Text
holy_calamity writes "A computer vision research group at UCLA has put together a system that watches surveillance footage and generates a text description of the events in real time. It only works on traffic cameras for now but demonstrates how sophisticated computer vision is becoming. Interestingly, the system was built thanks to a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers."
Students and geeks have no empathy any more. They're no longer the elite 10%, but tools in extended training to prepare themselves for debt, servitude and an unsatisfying family. Cooperation with China in academia IME is not to improve local academic talent with the best Chinese minds but because Chinese coming to the West are the sons and daughters of rich, well-connected families who pay full fees and more to the Universities concerned (this is even worse in the EU than US, where some Universities are dying for cash and it is official policy to send senior staff over to China to court students).
You can mod down my posts as much as you want because you are too ashamed to admit there might be a problem with a cooperation between US and Chinese academia+government on improving artifically intelligent surveillance tools, but it won't stop the fruits of their labours being used to watch your movements within a decade or two.