America and its economic allies have announced five “democratic” principles for AI
By: Technology Review May 22, 2019 The Trump administration might be building walls between America and some countries, but it is eager to forge alliances when it comes to shaping the course of artificial intelligence. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a coalition of countries dedicated to promoting democracy and economic development, has […]
Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders
By: Futurism April 22, 2019 If you took a cab in Japan this year, you may have come face-to-face with a tablet that scanned your face in order to learn your gender, age, and other characteristics — and used that data to target you with relevant advertisements. The facial recognition system made the rounds on Twitter on Saturday […]
Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads
By: Futurism March 22, 2019 The founder of MoviePass is back, and this time he’s not messing around. MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes has a new startup called PreShow, and it’s using a business model straight out of “A Clockwork Orange”: The company’s new app helps you score free movie tickets — as long as you sit through 15 […]
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review
By: John Naughton June 30, 2019 Kai Strittmatter is a German journalist who writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung and is currently based in Copenhagen. From 1997 until recently, he had been a foreign correspondent in Beijing. Prior to those postings, he had studied sinology and journalism in Munich, Xi’an and Taipei. So he knows China rather […]
The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition
By: Dan Robitzski June 3, 2019 Point And Shoot The U.S. Army wants guns that wait to fire until they see the whites of the enemy’s eyes. At least, it put out a call for contractors to develop next-generation rifles that come equipped with facial recognition and automatic targeting software, according to Military.com. The new […]
MobiKa: A low-cost mobile robot that can assist people in a variety of settings
By: Ingrid Fadelli May 23, 2019 Researchers at Fraunhofer IPA, in Stuttgart, Germany, have recently developed MobiKa, a low-cost, mobile robot capable of two-modal (voice and text) interactions with humans. Their robot, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, could be particularly useful for assisting elderly people. Recent advances in robotics have enabled the development […]
Office worker launches UK’s first police facial recognition legal action
By: Ed Bridges, Steven Morris May 21, 2019 An office worker who believes his image was captured by facial recognition cameras when he popped out for a sandwich in his lunch break has launched a groundbreaking legal battle against the use of the technology. Supported by the campaign group Liberty, Ed Bridges, from Cardiff, raised […]
New Artificial Intelligence Sees Like a Human, Bringing Us Closer to Skynet
By: Donovan Alexander May 19, 2019 Artificial Intelligence is evolving at a rapid rate ushering in a new age in technology. Though we are still very much a ways away from creating super-intelligent robots, AI seems to be becoming more and more like us every few months. Though the debate for what role AI will […]
Use of facial recognition tech ‘dangerously irresponsible’
By: By Geoff White May 13, 2019 Black and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners. At least three chances to assess how well the systems deal with ethnicity were missed over the past five years, […]