Facial Recognition in China by John R. Patrick
Facial Recognition in China Written: April 2023 Fortune Magazine published an article about facial recognition in China. The title was “Every Step You Take, They’ll Be Watching You”. You might think with a population of 1.4 billion, it would be hard to conduct surveillance over such a large numbers of people. It actually is not […]
Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick
Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick Written: April 2023 Last week, I explained the basics of how facial recognition works. There are many pluses and minuses about use of the technology. I would now like to share a couple of examples of my personal encounters with facial recognition. One use case […]
Faces by John R. Patrick
Faces by John R. Patrick Written: March 2023 Now that I have covered cats and dogs with machine learning, I will branch out to facial recognition of humans. Facial recognition is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video camera. Facial recognition has […]
Cats and Dogs by John R. Patrick
Cats and Dogs Written: March 2023 In a Tom Friedman article on March 21, 2023, Tom quoted Craig Mundie, the former chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, as saying artificial intelligence (AI), “is going to change everything about how we do everything. I think that it represents mankind’s greatest invention to date.” That is […]
Can AI Improve Stethoscopes? by John R. Patrick
Can AI Improve Stethoscopes? Written: March 2023 AI is becoming more and more prevalent in our business and personal lives. It is changing the world we live in at a rapid pace. I have observed over the past 50 years every new technology brings bad actors along with it. They immediately look for ways to […]
