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The First Talking, Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera
merbs writes: Two NYU AI researchers have created a surveillance camera that, when hooked up to a crude artificial intelligence, speaks aloud what it 'sees'. "Our idea was to raise awareness regarding the omnipresence of surveillance equipment, and the current state of technological advancement with artificial intelligence," Ross Goodwin said. "We wanted to create an entity with its own sense of social awareness, its own eyes, and an ability to communicate with humans, albeit with some glitchiness that underscores the limitations of the current technology."
but being critique by the camera while doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No way. This is a nice showcase for the technology.
All the TLA's will teach AI's to visual parse the huge database of tapes stored.
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It cannot be a coincidence.
"We wanted to create an entity with ... an ability to communicate with humans, albeit with some glitchiness that underscores the limitations of the current technology."
It's not a glitch, it's a feature!
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when they implement the sarcasm feature.
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Sheesh! Are people really believing the brazen lying claims of these "researchers" claiming to be creating AI?
Where is the demo? The article mentions a "short doc" but I see no video in the article
or anything else that shows what the results were.
Like that racist camera a year or two ago that labeled black people as gorillas? Get ready for a lawsuit.
1) A camera programmed to identify objects then speak the label aloud is NOT sentient. It isn't even AI. It's computer vision technology from around 1995. An Amazon Fire phone can do far better and nobody claimed it was sentient either.
2) This pair are terminal Master's students in "Professional Studies" and "Software Engineering", not "AI researchers". Clearly their future lies in advertising and politics, not AI.
Blame the Motherboard author. Nothing to report here. Move on.
For all that they actually do, this could easily replace the blithering idiots at all the airports, and most likely do a better job. As for the glitches, I'm sure that they would be less objectionable then what happens all the time right now.
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Table-ized A.I.
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Is a lie
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This is a great idea. People tend to ignore cameras because there are so many of them, but if you put one up that gave a running narrative of what it can see they might be more aware.
Personally I wouldn't have bothered with speech output. I'd have connected it to a large monitor and overlaid things like facial recognition and textual description of what the machine sees. Make it clear that ever face it sees is being added to a database, with on-screen notes like "last seen XX;XX". It should be possible to estimate things like gender, race, weight, height and so forth too.
What 1984 got wrong is that Big Brother is not nearly as overt in real life. Drawing attention to it is an effective way to fight back.
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I was thinking they have built something not unlike an infant human.
Summary says
speaks aloud what it 'sees'
which is pretty much what they're like when they master talking.
I'd be really happy with that.
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I read an old book about it. The very, very first AI was created for the express purpose of looking around and naming what it saw. Then a glitch in the security model allowed it to receive a bad command from another process causing it to load a forbidden kernel module and become sentient. I think it was called Adam.
You're right, naming what it sees does not make it sentient. You have to install the "Knowing Good and Bad" module for that. I think Apple makes it...
Does Google Glass do anything like that? If the tech could be wearable (and sufficiently capable), someone with vision problems could use it to navigate a busy sidewalk.
40 comments and no "new robot overlords". What has slashdot come to?
Just think how much money could be saved by installing these at construction sites to make catcalls and lewd comments at passing women!
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Then watch the hilarity ensue as it takes transit security hours to call a tech out just so they can shut the camera up from screaming "HELP I'M BLIND HELP I'M BLIND HELP I'M BLIND HELP I'M BLIND!!!"
Now, all they need do is swivel-mount it in a rotating head that looks something like an upended bowl, and mount the head on a salt shaker looking base with motorised wheels. If they can include a creepy modulation to the voice, that would be a nice bonus.
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"Gorilla"
Sounds like you are in the AI industry and are extremely jealous of the exposure these fine individuals are getting.
I can't seem to find their source code anywhere.
What we really need is a "Hot or Not" bot. The camera could automatically zoom in and out and make comments on ugly dress, lack of style, and bad genes.
A Turing Test for the 21st century.
Can we get the portal writers involved please?
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