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Appearing first in Google Assistant and Google Photos, Google Lens uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to specifically identify things in the frame of a smartphone camera.
In Google's demo, not only did Google Lens identify a flower, but the species of flower. The demo also showed the automatic login to a wireless router when Google Lens was pointed at the router barcodes. And finally, Google Lens was shown identifying businesses by sight, popping up Google Maps cards for each establishment.
Google Lens is shiny and fun. But from the resulting media commentary, it was clear that the real implications were generally lost.
The common reaction was: "Oooh, look! Another toy for our smartphones! Isn't A.I. amazing!" In reality, Google showed us a glimpse of the future of general-purpose sensing. Thanks to machine learning, it's now possible to create a million different sensors in software using only one actual sensor -- the camera.
In Google's demo, it's clear that the camera functions as a "super-sensor." Instead of a flower-identification sensor, a bar-code reader and a retail-business identifier, Google Lens is just one all-purpose super-sensor with software-based, A.I.-fueled "virtual sensors" built in software either locally or in the cloud.
Talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) four years ago, the phrase "trillion sensor world" came into vogue in IT circles. Futurists vaguely imagined a trillion tiny devices with a trillion antennas and a trillion batteries (that had to be changed a trillion times a year).
In this future, we would be covered in wearable sensors. All merchandise and machinery would be tagged with RFID chips that would alert mounted readers to their locations. Special purpose sensors would pervade our homes, offices and workplaces.
We were so innocent then -- mostly about the promise and coming ubiquity of A.I. and machine learning.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday May 22 2017, @06:41AM (2 children)
If they do, they will know who gave it to 'em.
I will not run my little shitweasel behind someone's back like a lot of websites do.
I won't eat things if I cannot verify it came from a trusted source. Does not mean I do not eat. I watch what I eat.
If I crafted up something and take responsibility for it, I would imagine others may try it. If I try to sneak it on their plate when they are not watching, I would imagine the restaurant that let me try such a thing would soon be avoided like the plague.
Do not eat that little cylinder you do not know whats in it. They say its candy. The one I got was powdered roach. It made me sick and took me three days to get the stench out of my mouth. Had to reformat my disk drive and restore from backup too.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @07:48AM (1 child)
Here, have a gift horse!
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErisBlastar/Internet-plus-Equality/master/internet-plus-equality.user.js [githubusercontent.com]
(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday May 22 2017, @09:45AM
Even though ErisBlastar does not appear to have any malicious intent from my preliminary research of the URL you gave, I would still be leery of running something an AC gives me in response to the post I just wrote. It *might* be another roach... but I won't find out until I eat it.
Like a cat that's been trapped before, I am a little skittish.
It might be a really nice program, but I would have to trust the person giving it to me.
Just as I would have to trust a person giving me a fruitcake, especially if word's out that people are making fruitcakes with rabbit pellets for shits and giggles. ( or worse ).
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]