Cops pause use of "flawed" AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspects?
Cops pause use of flawed AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspects
Flawed AI? The real issue with AI is that many people expect it to be infallible. Even when AI performs better than humans, there is a tendency to believe it should be perfect. AI models can never achieve 100% accuracy; however, they often outperform humans and can provide greater visibility of an area than relying on good Samaritans. Face and object recognition systems return percentage matches based on a threshold you set. It’s essential to find a balance between minimizing false positives and avoiding missed matches, which is something that is challenging to achieve with human identification. Therefore, a secondary method of identification will always be necessary, regardless of the technology or people used.
Interesting. Pointed some test code at google to see if new driver works and got a captcha. Guess they do not want anyone scraping them like they do.
Harper Reed on coding with AI
Harper Reed on coding with AI video
Some great tips, but it’s clear he’s rewriting the entire app to add a feature or fix a bug, which I don’t believe most companies will adopt, as they prefer the code to change as little as possible to avoid introducing new bugs. Since most of the work that paid programmers do involves fixing bugs, upgrading versions (like Java 8 to Java 17), and adding features, I foresee AI being an excellent tool for researching new functions instead of googling and clicking on numerous links to find a working example among all the unanswered and incorrectly answered question posts. I see the next step as utilizing tools to read your codebase and requirement documents to build a model that can “understand” your application. This model will collaborate with coding models to generate updates for your codebase and tests for those changes. Perhaps in a decade, management will feel comfortable removing the last human coder, at a senior or lead level, from the loop.
Seeing so many all-or-nothing posts about how AI will replace programmers, I made a post as a long-time programmer who uses these tools and knows their limitations compared to what professional programmers actually do on a daily basis.
Is Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 real?
The article Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 is going around today. But I’m signed up for early access to Alexa+ but have not seen this. Plus the bandwidth required for all my devices to continuous stream to Amazon would be a serious hit on upload bandwidth. If fact on the privacy section of the Alex+ information page of the Amazon site it says the opposite.
A new petition claims AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved
Has Douglas Adams predicted the future yet again when he wrote “A robot was programmed to believe that it liked herring sandwiches”?
It is about time that robotics technology integrates arms for improved functionality.
New Roborock Vacuum Has an Arm and Picked Up My Sock
I think most await a robot that can effectively handle tasks such as loading the dishwasher and managing laundry. These capabilities are essential for enhancing efficiency in everyday household activities.
Looks like some real opportunities for those of us with AI experience.
Especially in Austin, TX. President Trump announces $500B investment to build AI data centers in Texas
Funny how many discussions about AI sound very similar to the “Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty” argument of the philosophers in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy [youtu.be/tnSltkMaI…