Image Recognition
Sperry’s refusal argument ultimately won out with regards to execution and prolonged solitary confinement (the latter of which is so psychologically damaging that UN officials consider it a form of torture). This article is from August / September 2023 magazine Click here to explore more from this issueThere are real, current problems with AI systems that might be sufficient reason to rethink their deployment. Indeed, AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has been prophesying superhuman killer AIs since the early 2000s, recently proposed tracking the sales of GPUs (the number-crunching processors used to build powerful AI systems). In the past few years, more than 20 US cities and states have banned or restricted the use of facial recognition software by police (though some have subsequently reversed their decision). A troubling analysis of the use of live facial recognition by police in Britain has prompted calls for a similar ban.