Matt’s Weekly Digest: Week 7

Theme: AI and Privacy

This week goes deep instead of broad. Yesterday, I was speaking at the Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) to discuss artificial intelligence (AI).

On the panel was, David Moloney, Director of Computer Vision at Intel. What a treat! We discussed the possibilities and implications of capturing images, sounds and other biometrics in a world powered by device.

AI is incredible and we can unlock and retool so many industries to make material differences to transport death rates, healthcare treatment for all, and overall betterment of lives. It also reveals a lot of very personal data.

Thankfully, there are both technical and legislative ways to deal with this — stay tuned for an upcoming post around how we can play an active role in user first personalisation.

Autonomous vehicles and the end of Privacy

Catchy title, but misses a key point for me.

At the core of computer vision, audio recognition and natural language processing (NLP), we collect datasets that reveal so much about an individual. This becomes valuable at the individual level and at the cross-consumer level. The issue is data ownership and control. How we deal with the data is not set in stone. Hardware technology players are actually the key to unlocking a new personal data relationship.

Before you needed a cloud and big machines to extract emotions, soon every camera can do it, and keep it, at source unlocking a new way to protect your privacy while serving a macro level benefit.

Regardless, the discussion needs to happen.

Link: https://hackernoon.com/autonomous-vehicles-and-the-end-of-privacy-9c3712f3494f#.r7hnop769

And to balance the serious article, here’s a fun one…

Computer vision for faces, not just a human application.

Fun article that highlights the many different ways we can re-purpose our core technology. Last week, our eye-tracking partners found a great use case in exam proctoring. This week, face detection can be used in animal detection and classification. Perhaps we can start applying to how animals feel as well?

Link: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/facial-recognition-lemurs

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M