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US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 07 2020, @07:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the first-mover-advantage dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:

I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with 'North American image-analysis code embargo':

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!

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:44PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:44PM (#941175) Journal

    Well, now you're starting to get unfair. Those t-shirt encryption perl scripts aren't dumping all of TLS with its socket management, streams, error resiliency, key validation, certificate lookup, and the host of complex infrastructure around encryption. They're shifting some bits and doing some math. Of course there's application specific contextualization that needs to happen.

    The actual neural net guts are real damn simple, at least in terms of "where the magic happens".

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday January 08 2020, @11:14PM

    by HiThere (866) on Wednesday January 08 2020, @11:14PM (#941240) Journal

    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.

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