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The First Talking, Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-are-you-doing-dave? dept.

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."

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  1. Not only spied upon by kallen3 · · Score: 2

    but being critique by the camera while doing it.

    1. Re:Not only spied upon by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Aside from the creepiness of the idea ...

      It only seems creepy because you are old. For young kids growing up with Siri and Amazon Echo, it is natural to have devices that talk to you. They don't think it is creepy at all. My son uses Amazon Echo to do his homework. He ask her questions (yes, it is a "her") and she answers correctly more often than not.

  2. I'll be impressed by hey! · · Score: 2

    when they implement the sarcasm feature.

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  3. Self promotion. Move on. by RandCraw · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Where is the demo video? by Harald+Paulsen · · Score: 2

    There is a video on top of the page, and it's crap.

    It appears they read the definition of a random word from a dictionary, and one of the researchers try to make it fit when talking to the subject. Sort of a cold reading.

    "perhaps, a travel, or two, a goverment. .. the travel is blabla bla"
    - is that true? are you travelling?

    "probably it is the knowledge of .."
    - are you a college graduate?

    Wow.. just not impressed.

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  5. Possible boon to the vision impaired by seven+of+five · · Score: 2

    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.