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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 22 2017, @05:40AM (3 children)
This is a technical problem, that is, a matter of established physical reality. Legislation never did win a fight with cold hard physics. So the solution is to throw a wrench in the works. If everyone in your car is wearing Donald Trump masks, for example, that could lead to a case of what is politely called "Bayesian poisoning." Think, by analogy here, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning for databases :)
tl;dr: you can't hide, but you can bullshit.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Monday May 22 2017, @09:21AM (2 children)
" If everyone in your car is wearing Donald Trump masks, for example, that could lead to a case of what is politely called "Bayesian poisoning." Think, by analogy here, diarrhetic shellfish poisoning for databases :)
tl;dr: you can't hide, but you can bullshit."
Until they make covering your face, or otherwise preventing identification illegal. Here in the UK they are trying to make a blanket ban on being in public with your face covered. The only exceptions at the moment are motorcycle helmets (safety) and burka's (religious discrimination). In theory I think you can wear a mask in a car, but if you do you would be pulled over for "driving without due care an attention", the argument being the mask interferes with your ability to drive properly (and having worn masks, they do really make it hard to see well).
Somehow I don't think trying to game the system by feeding it erroneous data will work, because quite frankly, if governments/corporations get a hold of this level of control via this tech, they a) won't let go of it without a fight, and b) they will make sure to corral as many people into it as they possibly can, making sure to criminalise anyone who tried to undermine the system.
Yes, I realise the UK is one of the world's most developed police states, however that is only because they are ahead of the curve. Where the UK is now, others will be in a few years. So thinking "but that isn't the case where I live" is not really a solution for the future.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday May 22 2017, @06:54PM (1 child)
I am not wearing a mask to prevent identification but for health reasons officer. The idea being not to wear a mask of someone but a surgical mask...
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/16965/1/Why-Do-Asians-Wear-Surgical-Masks.html [healthguidance.org]
A billion Chinese can't be wrong twice can they ? :)
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Monday May 22 2017, @10:50PM
Touche :)
However, they can identify you by your facial structure. Specifically the jawline, and distance between bridge, eyes, node and top of your head. A mask like the Asians wear will not save you from being identified, as it does not mask any of those features.
Seriously, the average human has so many unique tells, that trying to mask your identity this way is a losing battle. Do not rely on your ability to impart false data in the machine, you will not win. Better fight now for the machine to never be created in the first place.