The algorithm began to recognize the monkeys, Robops took the crimes and other events from the world of AI

We strive to inform readers not only about events in the Bitcoin industry, but also to talk about what is happening in related technological spheres-cybersecurity, and now in the world of artificial intelligence (AI).

Forklog has collected the most important news from the world of AI over the past week.

• Facebook considers legal issues of using persons recognition technologies in smart glasses that the company can present this year.
• The EU Agency for cybersecurity issued a report in which he examines the capabilities of attacks on autonomous cars in detail, and called scientists, developers and specialists to work together at all stages of creating smart machines.
• Researchers from China created an algorithm for recognizing faces of an endangered species of monkeys.
• New York police launched Boston Dynamics Robops for crimes in Bronx and considers the possibility of using such devices in the future.
• AI pulled the resolution of the Never Gonna Give You Up clip up to 4K with a frame rate of 60 f/s.

Facebook will consider the possibility of using persons for their future smart glasses

Facebook Vice President, for supplemented and virtual reality, Andrew Bosworth at a closed meeting with employees said that the company is studying legal issues and problems of confidentiality associated with the recognition of persons for its future smart points.

During the meeting, Bosworth said that the company is currently evaluating whether it has the right to offer person recognition services on wearable devices. According to him, the decision has not yet been made. He noted that the current US laws may deprive Facebook, the opportunity to offer people the opportunity to look for others from photographs of their faces.

“The recognition of faces … may be the most difficult problem when the advantages are so obvious, and the risks are so great, and we do not know where to balance these things,” said Bosworth in response to the employee’s question about whether people can “celebrate their faces as if they could celebrate their faces unidentified “.

An unnamed worker emphasized fears about potential “real harm”, including “stalkers”.

Smart glasses that Facebook talked about last year will be created in partnership with Ray-Ban and its maternal company Luxottica Group. More information about the device in the company should tell in the second half of 2021.

The EU was worried about the vulnerability of autonomous cars with artificial intelligence

The European Cybersecurity Agency issued a report in which it expressed fears that autonomous vehicles were “very vulnerable to a wide range of attacks”. According to the authors of the report, vulnerabilities can pose a real threat to both passengers and pedestrians.

The threats considered in the report include attacks on sensors with lights of light, suppressing object detection systems, internal harmful activity and attacks on machine learning algorithms.

“Vulnerability can be used to make AI“ blind ”for pedestrians, manipulating, for example, a component of image recognition in order to incorrectly classify them. This can lead to chaos on the streets, since autonomous cars can run on people on roads or pedestrian crossings, ”the report said.

The authors of the study also noted that the use of machine learning in cars will require a constant verification of systems to guarantee that they were not changed maliciously.

“The cybersecurity of AI cannot only be a secondary issue … Especially when artificial intelligence systems are developed by scientists and then introduced by engineers. Artificial intelligence systems should be developed, implemented and deployed by groups in which an expert in the field of automotive industry, machine training expert and cybersecurity expert work, ”the document says.

Chinese researchers have developed persons recognition for monkeys

A research group from the North-Western University of China has developed a system of recognition of the faces of the Sichuan golden snub-legged monkeys, which live on Mount Qinlin in the province of Sheanxi.

The technology is currently at the experimental stage of promotion and can identify about 200 gold monkeys.

“When the technology of recognition of monkeys is fully developed, we will be able to integrate this technology into the sets of infrared chambers in the mountains. The system automatically recognizes them, identifies by name and analyze the behavior, ”said Zhang Hy, a member of the research group.

Compared to identifying people for people, the technology of monkey recognition is characterized in that the muzzle of the golden monkey hairy, which makes higher requirements for the ability of the system to determine the features and contours on the surface of the face.

Currently, about 4,000 golden snub monkeys live in the Qinlin mountains, which are on the verge of extinction. Such projects are designed to help researchers keep a population accounting and take measures to preserve the species.

Microsoft will add to Word text predictions based on artificial intelligence

Microsoft plans to add to Word text prediction based on artificial intelligence in March 2021. This is stated in the updated Microsoft 365 roadmap.

The software giant for the first time presented this function of the beta-testers of the Office package on Windows last year. She uses machine learning to offer spelling options based on the text introduced by the user.

“Prediction of text helps users write more efficiently, quickly and accurately. This function reduces the number of spelling and grammatical errors and eventually learns to give the best recommendations depending on the style of writing. “.

After starting the function, the user will begin to see forecasts as the document enters. To adopt the recommendations, it will be necessary to press the TAB key, and for deviation – ESC. However, the function can be completely disabled.

New York police used Robops at the crime scene

At the end of February, the New York police sent the Boston Dynamics Robot Sport to the crime scene in Bronx.

The representative of the New York police said that the robot is under testing to evaluate whether it is really useful in the field. Robopes is equipped with flashlights and video camera so that the New York police can see everything that the spot sees.

The movement of the robot fell under the lens of the Freedomnews video operator camera.TV. One of the eyewitnesses on the video called “this thing is terrible” when the robot swept past the camera.

This is not the first time that the New York police uses one of the Boston Dynamics robots. In October, the department took advantage of another spot to find a criminal who barricaded in the building after he accidentally shot someone in the head during a dispute about a parking lot in Brooklyn.

AI made a remaster of the video “Never Gonna Give You Up” in 4K permits

The video for the famous song from the 80s of Rick Estley Never Gonna Give You Up, which has become a meme, has been processed by artificial intelligence algorithms and is now available in 4K resolution.

The authors of remaster used the Topaz Video Enhance application. The program is based on the deep learning algorithms that increase the resolution of the source video to 4K. The authors also used the RIFE (FlowFrames) utility, which allowed to increase the framework to 60 frames per second.

For the first time, the video was poured on the Revideo YouTube channel in January, but the boom of popularity came at the end of February. The full video has already been deleted from video hosting due to copyright violations, but it can still be watched here.

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