#machine perception

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Moonshot X AI Helps To Protect Oceans And Sustainably Feed Humanity

Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory, X, has bestowed upon the world many notable projects, such as delivery drones, self-driving cars, and internet balloons. Now, the company is taking another go at delivering technology that can benefit us all, but this time, by helping the environment. The project, called Tidal, is a “moonshot...

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‘O HAI! GRAHAM’  Concept

A bit of state-of-the-art dystopian extrapolation.

The ingredients:

I. A contrived, nonetheless virally very succesful meme generated upon the initiative of Australia’s Transport Accident Commission, as part of a state public awareness campaign. Embodied by a wonderful, original,  ominous and mesmerizing sculpture by Patricia Piccinini. This is how an evolved human is supposed to look like, one that is biologically equipped to survive heavy accidents, especially car-crashes. 

II. The AI, a machine perception-based autonomous vehicle, that’s coming into our futures from several directions at once, here represented by the most cutesy model of them all, from Google. This is the Hello Kitty of self-driving cars.

III. And last but foremost, a recent (February 2016) scientific paper from OpenAI and Google researchers, describing methods of Attacks against Deep Learning Systems (such as used in the self-driving cars), that can, in a highly sophisticated, humanly undetectable way, fool an AI to see something that isn’t there, or to ‘think’ that it sees something else instead.

Now connecting the dots...

Adversarial Examples in the Physical World 

Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples

Practical Black-Box Attacks against Deep Learning Systems 

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NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced the development of a new biometric personal identification technology that uses the resonation of sound determined by the shape of human ear cavities to distinguish individuals.

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A huge study on how humans and computers see objects could inspire better artificial intelligence

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Extended Senses & Invisible Fences

Amidst the swirling maelstrom of technological progress so often heralded as the imminent salvation to all our ills, it can be necessary to remind ourselves that humanity sits at the center, not technology. And yet, we extrude these tools so effortlessly as if secreted by some glandular Technos expressed from deep within our genetic code. It’s difficult to separate us from our creations but it’s imperative that we examine this odd relationship as we engineer more autonomy, sensitivity, and cognition into the machines we bring into this world. The social environment, typified by the contemporary urban landscape, is evolving to include non-human actors that routinely engage with us, examining our behaviors, mediating our relationships, and assigning or revoking our rights. It is this evolving human-machine socialization that I wish to consider.

http://www.urbeingrecorded.com/news/2012/06/27/extended-senses-invisible-fences/