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Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work
Technology Review ^ | 4-17-20 | unattributed

Posted on 04/22/2020 7:23:04 PM PDT by dynachrome

Andrew Ng’s startup Landing AI has created a new workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired distance from a colleague.

Six feet apart: On Thursday, the startup released a blog post with a new demo video showing off a new social distancing detector. On the left is a feed of people walking around on the street. On the right, a bird’s-eye diagram represents each one as a dot and turns them bright red when they move too close to someone else. The company says the tool is meant to be used in work settings like factory floors and was developed in response to the request of its customers (which include Foxconn). It also says the tool can easily be integrated into existing security camera systems, but that it is still exploring how to notify people when they break social distancing. One possible method is an alarm that sounds when workers pass too close to one another. A report could also be generated overnight to help managers rearrange the workspace, the company says.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; bigbrother
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To: dynachrome

The answer is ‘yes’. Can they do it? Sure....from somebody that has to consider AI/ML applications all the time.

It’s almost as though we’re in the movie “They Live”. The world around us that we don’t see also controls us.

Interesting times :)


21 posted on 04/22/2020 8:13:33 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: boxlunch
It feels like we’ve been conquered without a shot being fired. I just don’t understand what has happened.

Isn't it obvious? The people don't run the country and our democracy is a joke. It pay to play now.

22 posted on 04/22/2020 8:18:01 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you ever wanted to know what the real meaning of the term “Nanny State” well here it is...


23 posted on 04/22/2020 8:23:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: boxlunch

Comes the Human Robots under Communists rule.


24 posted on 04/22/2020 8:25:29 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: dforest
Enough of this crap.

Bears repeating.

Just think, this has only been a little over a month.

25 posted on 04/22/2020 8:48:44 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dynachrome

Masks work much better with distance. Epidemic masks aren’t so bad, after you get accustomed to them. At least they’re not gas masks, and no one is required to run while wearing them. I can say from experience, that combat gas masks are far worse when running and carrying loads in summer heat.


26 posted on 04/22/2020 10:00:01 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: dynachrome

If masks and physical distances will get us all to work and make the economy run more, then I’m all for them. I don’t care about fashion shows.


27 posted on 04/22/2020 10:02:34 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: dynachrome
Maybe Slow Joe should “aggress” this at his next town thingee
28 posted on 04/23/2020 4:19:16 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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