Image Recognition
How an 'AI-tocracy' emerges(Nanowerk News) Many scholars, analysts, and other observers have suggested that resistance to innovation is an Achilles’ heel of authoritarian regimes. To catalogue instances of political unrest in China, they used data from the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which records news feeds globally. But as one way of getting at that question, they studied the relationship between weather and political unrest in different areas of China. Certain weather conditions are conducive to political unrest. “We examine if this leads to greater innovation by facial-recognition AI firms, and indeed it does,” Beraja says.