OSAKA -- The press got a two-day advance look at the new facial recognition ticket gate and the world's first shifting platform doors at West Japan Railway Co. (JR West)'s Osaka Station on March 16.\nThe newly introduced facial recognition ticket gate is seen at the Umekita underground exit of JR Osaka Station in Osaka's Kita Ward on March 16, 2023.\n(Mainichi/Rei Kubo)The adaptive doors have been installed on a new underground platform, and open and close in different positions depending on the type of train -- the first of their kind to enter regular use anywhere.\nThe underground platform will be used by the limited express trains \"Haruka\" and \"Kuroshio,\" which previously did not stop at Osaka Station.\nOsaka Station manager Hiroyuki Watanabe said that to have the limited express services stop there \"was a long-held wish.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"OpenAI setting the pace for EU regulators, as GPAIs throw a wrench into AI Act","slug":"openai-setting-the-pace-for-eu-regulators-as-gpais-throw-a-wrench-into-ai-act","publishDate":"2023-03-16 22:38:42+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:50.659408","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"According to Politico, the current draft of the AI Act aims to curtail potential harm; it addresses what it calls “high-risk” AI and restricts certain applications, such as social scoring, manipulation and some uses of facial recognition.\nHuman oversight is a key piece in the European AI Act’s regulatory framework.\nBut, writing in The Parliament magazine, Johannes Walter, a German researcher and academic, argues that evidence shows human oversight can too often fail.\n“The problem with the AI Act is that it presupposes that AI systems have always been designed in such a way that human oversight will be effective,” says Walter.\n“Ensuring that human oversight works as intended is key to prevent future discriminatory decisions or further casualties.”Article TopicsAI | AI Act | ChatGPT | EU | GPAI | regulation | standards
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Where the sidewalk ends","slug":"where-the-sidewalk-ends","publishDate":"2023-03-23 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:50.079014","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"\"Most U.S. city governments know very little about their sidewalk networks.\nThe paper, \"Mapping the Walk: A Scalable Computer Vision Approach for Generating Sidewalk Network Datasets from Aerial Imagery,\" appears online in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.\n\"You would drive to an intersection and then the road just ends.\n\"The whole world of urban data for public transit and pedestrians and bicycles is really far behind [vehicle data] in quality.\nTo make best use of pedestrian infrastructure, it's important that cities have the network data about it.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Basically dangerous facial recognition-breakinglatest.news-Breaking Latest News","slug":"basically-dangerous-facial-recognition-breakinglatest-news-breaking-latest-news","publishDate":"2023-03-16 23:49:39+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:49.520000","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"In Europe, the EU Council of Ministers decided at the beginning of December to expand the possible uses of cameras with automatic face recognition.\nA short comment by Michael Spehr in the FAZ, which shows how much more and more powerful biometric facial recognition threatens fundamental freedom rights.\nOn the one hand, there are Chinese cameras that recognize, for example, which ethnic group someone belongs to, whether they are bored or collect signatures in public spaces.\nOn the other hand, a lawyer who wants to take her daughter to a musical in New York is identified in the crowd using similar technology and referred to Radio City Music Hall because her law firm is suing the owner.\nworth reading.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Kroger teams up with Gatik on autonomous box trucks","slug":"kroger-teams-up-with-gatik-on-autonomous-box-trucks","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:48.882983","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"To continue reading...orWith a free account you can access:In-depth articles on the latest developments in the industryFree guides and whitepapers from our functional expertsAccess to a range of topic-specific newsletters
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waabi applying AI and simulations to advance autonomous trucks","slug":"waabi-applying-ai-and-simulations-to-advance-autonomous-trucks","publishDate":"2023-03-16 14:32:02+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:48.305248","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Picture an automated driving school for the autonomous trucks themselves.\nRaquel Urtasun, Waabi founder and CEO (Photo: Supplied)Who is Urtasun?\nOnce that related business unit was sold to Aurora Innovation, she and many team members established Waabi and its focus on autonomous trucks rather than cars.\n“That’s the beauty of autonomous trucks, that you could see an uptime of 16 to 18 hours if you have that system in place.\nBut the “safety drivers” who have to ride along inside autonomous trucks during today’s tests will eventually need to be removed, he adds.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Chat GPT-4 vs Chat GPT-3: What’s new?","slug":"chat-gpt-4-vs-chat-gpt-3-whats-new","publishDate":"2023-03-15 16:09:45+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:47.880673","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"With the release of Chat GPT-4, we wanted to take a look at how it differs from Chat GPT-3, and if there are any notable improvements over its predecessor.\nRead on to find out four of the key differences between Chat GPT-4 and Chat GPT-3.\nThis was shown in an example from Open AI, wherein an older version of Chat GPT and Chat GPT-4 were both asked the same question.\nChat GPT-4 can understand imagesOne of the biggest changes between Chat GPT-4 and Chat GPT-3 is that the latest version of the software can understand images.\nMoreover, Chat GPT-4 outperforms Chat GPT-3 by up to 16% on common machine learning benchmarks and is better equipped to take on multilingual tasks than its predecessor, which should make it more accessible to non-English speakers.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"The Path to Commercializing Autonomous Trucking","slug":"the-path-to-commercializing-autonomous-trucking","publishDate":"2023-03-16 05:06:11","createdLocal":"2023-03-17 14:30:47.783139","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Aurora has been running a pilot program with FedEx to haul goods between Dallas and Houston via self-driving Paccar trucks since September 2021.\nAs with most other autonomous freight pilots, human safety operators are present in the vehicles, but Aurora’s goal is to operate its trucks fully autonomously by the end of next year.\nWe’ll check in on the pilot’s progress so far, and implications for the future of autonomous trucking.
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