The US government has placed software designed to train neural networks to analyse satellite images under new export controls in a bid to prevent foreign adversaries using said code.
The decision, made by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is effective today. Vendors shipping software subject to the controls – in that the applications help machine learning systems annotate satellite images in a particular way – will have to apply for a license to sell their products to customers outside of the US and Canada.
"Items warrant control for export because the items may provide a significant military or intelligence advantage to the United States or because foreign policy reasons justify control," the BIS said.
Hah!
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday January 08 2020, @11:14PM
Well, if you restrict it to actual visual image processing, and don't consider object recognition as significant, then yeah, you could do it, but you everyone else already has that capability, and has had it for decades.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.