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Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops?
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Now, an EU-funded, £7.2 million ($11 million USD) collaborative project, called Strands, is underway in England to develop 4D, artificial intelligence for security and care applications. It aims to produce intelligent robo-sentinels that can patrol areas, and learn to detect abnormalities in human behavior. Could their project eventually replace security guards with robots? It looks possible. Strands, as Nick Hawes of the University of Birmingham said, will 'develop novel approaches to extract spatio-temporal structure from sensor data gathered during months of autonomous operation,' to develop intelligence that can then 'exploit [those] structures to yield adaptive behavior in highly demanding, real-world security and care scenarios.'"
"Please put down your weapon! You have 20 seconds to comply!"
gimme a roomba, a broom stick and a pivoting webcam.
"It aims to produce intelligent robo-sentinels that can patrol areas, and learn to detect abnormalities in human behavior."
Forget "abnormalities," if they just programmed the robots to detect and harass black people, you could replace the entire NYPD!
We already have seven of these. They're called D.O.Gs. Work great. Highly intelligent and programmable. Self directed. Loyal. Obedient. Self-replicating. Able to power themselves off of local rodents and farm wastes (meat & bones). They're also good at herding livestock.
So, basically an upgrade to Planned Parenthood?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear