Every seven years or so, a new trend appears in the world of technology to continue to develop and penetrate much of the technology that we use in our daily life or what is imposed on us from it, whether through the Internet or government services and others. This is the case with artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technologies these days. A technology that is constantly evolving, companies adopt it differently, and everyone wants it. But all of this comes with risks. What are they?
Self-developing technology, more than you might think
What is new and distinctive about artificial intelligence technologies is that they are self-learning. This is what makes them really "smart". Today's technology is undoubtedly better than yesterday. Tomorrow it will be better and more accurate. But how does this technology evolve? There are several methods which differ with each company.
As Apple relies heavily on the power of its processors and neural account chips to create artificial intelligence accounts locally on the device without having to send too much information to Apple. With the aim of preserving user privacy. But this makes it difficult for the company to develop the technology as it collects so little information, which the user can stop collecting as well. Leaving the task of training AI largely to Apple's engineers.
As for Google, the king of artificial intelligence, it relies on the work of all processors in its own (cloud) computers that connect to industrial devices via the Internet. This provides the company with the ability to create highly complex calculations without the need to develop special processors such as Apple. Also, Google collects data from everyone and everything to develop its own artificial intelligence. Search engine searches, image searches, Google images, and its face recognition and classification feature. Everything trains artificial intelligence.
Even those pictures on the Internet that you want to "make sure that you are a human" and then ask you to select all the pictures that contain a bus. These images are actually training the AI to recognize objects. Such as bus or traffic lights and others.
Racism problems
Racism appears to be a problem that will take time to solve. Even in the tech world. There have been several incidents in the news in which artificial intelligence systems have drastically altered their results based on skin color and facial characteristics. The last one was in April, when Google's artificial intelligence flagged the correct sign when seeing a picture of a white person holding an electronic thermometer. While he recognized the same image, but with a black-skinned person, as a person carrying a weapon.
Maybe we really need everyone's effort to solve this problem. Perhaps it is the natural outcome of leaving technology development to the West only.
Always watched
One of the most important uses of artificial intelligence is face recognition techniques. And it's not limited to automatically unlocking your phone or categorizing photos by people. Rather, it is used in many applications. Among the most influential of these are government surveillance systems. Whether to monitor streets or installations, and others.
Perhaps this point is considered controversial because due to the modernity of technology, we do not have in most of the world explicit laws and technical rules governing the use of these systems by companies and governments. There are fears of misuse. Imagine a private company that has the power to purchase a system that can access a database that only recognizes your face when you pass in front of a building. To know all your stored information. Or perhaps a government may misuse technology to target groups over the other with the security grip or something else. All are possibilities.
Echoing these doubts and concerns, IBM, a major AI leader, announced that it had stopped selling, developing, and even researching face-recognition technologies.
what is the opposite?
Of course, it's not just a corporate scheme of sorts to endanger users' privacy. Rather, it is the basis for developing the services that the user enjoys. Starting with the smart services provided by Google Photos, through the great capabilities of the new cameras, whose hardware development has slowed due to the reliance on artificial intelligence to improve the image, and the end of the smoothness of cloud systems and autonomous cars.
Are you ready to pay?
This is the important question. Are you (my friend) as a user of all these services, ready to risk your information or some of your privacy or freedom of movement without constant monitoring in order to enjoy these technologies?
Or should we slow down and reconsider how AI is developing and the technologies that are being used to improve it? Especially since what we mentioned is only part of the technology problems.
It is clear that AI holds many promises of powerful capabilities for the future. It is certain now that the engine of evolution in it must slow down a little until we review the rules. And we agree to new social contracts that guarantee the best adaptation of technology. So that we get its advantages while minimizing the risks as possible.
Sources:
TheVerge | AlgorithmWatch | OnMSFT
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The reality of the world is destined to develop technologies and with a little warning from here and there for some people on the importance of laying foundations and rules for developing these technologies and not using them in negative ways such as wars and persecution of some people. As for me personally, I live in the Arab world, my friend, I mean, practically, we need years to come to us. Are there technologies, but for sure, governments will You use it against the citizen when it does not arrive with us. Finally, thank you for your sweet girl
With the development of modern technologies and scientific progress, ultimately freedom of privacy is a natural thing
Our Lord conceals modern technology, an imminent danger that will penetrate everything in our daily life. May God protect us from those dangers that we do not know anything about.
I'm thinking about throwing away the electronic devices and getting the normal Nokia phone 😀
Technology is indispensable, then what privacy will technology companies violate about me ?! My appearance, my name and my interests ... What is important to me is not to violate my privacy, my family, or my bank accounts
From my point of view, we are compelled to use all that is new in technology, knowing that you are in constant danger and there is only one alternative to being isolated from the world, meaning that you will be alone because everyone, family, friends, co-workers, is in one circle, and you will be in another circle on your own.
Everything has two positive and negative sides - how much does it have to do? I remembered the words of the founder of the safety net, Kaspersky, who used an old device to communicate and not the smart device, saying, “There are people who have hacked and hacked with a signal to him who bought and will acquire smart devices” and measured a lot on that!
In my opinion, currently there are some very, very dangerous technologies, including artificial intelligence, and their purpose is not just providing services. This is the entertaining part of the game, but the topic is greater than that. Imagine that you know and watch every behavior that the world's population does while you are in your office always foreign films teach us that The most dangerous weapon at all is information. At the same time, you can only keep pace with technology and use services that depend on artificial intelligence. Here lies the dilemma, "as if we were mice caught in a trap, going around in circles."
In fact, we can reduce the possibility of companies tracking our activity on the Internet, but this indicates at the same time the impossibility of total prevention, and in the digital world, you can never make your privacy reserved for you only, and no one can access it, even if you use many hidden tools, these are reduced and not prevented. .
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I think that the programmer or technical developer gives the machine the basic rules and gives it self-learning commands by means of artificial intelligence. At that moment, the programmer may not be able to track the intelligence of the machine and control it. He may not understand why, for example, you took this decision and did not use others ..
Note that every device carrying the processor is qualified for programming.
In this present of ours, technology and technology run with our veins and our blood, so it is impossible to abandon smart devices even if we sacrifice privacy.
It seems to me that monitoring exists with or without artificial intelligence, and all that is said is that monitoring is not allowed except with the permission of the person. It is not correct. Whenever they want you, they find you.
We, as users of current technology, it is easy for everyone to know about us and we accept the reality imposed by technology on us, and therefore there is no privacy and we live with it. Thank you.
I think that we have no choice in that, as we are now forced to use technology in all aspects of our lives and therefore there will be no privacy.
The world is constantly evolving and it is impossible for a person to hide himself, for example from subscribing to Facebook who ask about the most private information, even if a person moves away from him, there are other ways such as Android, IOS, Twitter, LinkedIn and others, like the wheel with the passage of time
The privacy issue has become superficial, and I think it's okay with a little indulgence about the topic. The best example is that you arranged the article to show the name of every subscriber who reads it.
We do not own or record information about users. Showing the subscriber's name is a technical trick that makes your software show you your name. We do not need any information to do this.