Caterers in China Are Using AI To Spot Unhygienic Cooks, Report Says (venturebeat.com)

If you've ever harbored doubts about the hygiene of the cooks flipping your burger and frying your fries, you're definitely not the only one. From a report: Thepaper.cn reports that local authorities in eastern China have tapped artificial intelligence (AI) to clamp down on unsanitary cooks in kitchens -- and to reward those who adhere to best practices. According to the report, a camera-based system currently being piloted in the Zhejiang city of Shaoxing automatically recognizes "poor [sanitation] habits" and alerts managers to offending workers via a mobile app. It's reportedly the fruit of a six-year project -- Sunshine Kitchen -- that seeks to bring transparency to food preparation in catering, hotels, school cafeterias, and restaurants.

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Caterers in China Are Using AI To Spot Unhygienic Cooks, Report Says

Real story: China is using machine vision to bypass the problem of corrupt inspectors. And it's a damned good idea, too. It raises the bar for bribery if a machine-interpreted photograph has to be taken of the workplace. To my mind, each and every inspection of basically anything ought to be evidential.

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And if those compiler errors affected your social credit score?

There will always be a positive reason for embracing each creep forward by the totalitarian panopticon. Freedom requires accepting minor harm from others, as the other choice is total control (whether by government or employer, it's not good). Less worrying if it's just your boss doing it, perhaps, until every boss does it at which point it might as well be government.

I've worked directly with the automated systems that monitor the minute-by-minute performance of Amazon warehouse employees. It's creepy as fuck. Humanity will not be made happier by having our every little mistake highlighted by machine. Being constantly observed closely, even by machine, is psychologically damaging.