Image Recognition
advertisementadvertisementThis image’s simple resonance—the idea that technology will soon outstrip and overwhelm us—has created an enduring misperception: that AI is privacy invasive and uncontrollable. The surprising truth is very near the opposite: As big data and rapidly accelerating computing power intertwine, AI can be a bulwark of privacy. It’s not hard to figure out where the image of AI as necessarily omniscient comes from. A critical difference between AI and a traditional computer is that the former has the capacity to learn from experience. Only authorized users could leverage AI to search specific video with a verifiably legitimate reason.