How will AI react to chants of “Kill the AI!” (Soon AI will surveil all sports!)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/01/fifa-ai-powered-technology-var-offside-world-cup
AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup
… During the World Cup offside reviews will be conducted by creating a 3D map of the goalscoring action, using a combination of 12 cameras and a hi-tech ball. The Adidas Al Rihla ball will be fitted with a sensor that sends out location data 500 times per second, which will be matched against player positions on camera, with synchronised devices tracking 29 points on players’ bodies and relaying information 50 times per second.
That data will be processed using AI technology devised in collaboration with a number of universities, including the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. After being sent to an SAOT operator it will be double-checked by a VAR. The VAR will then relay the verdict to the referee, who will make the final call but will, in theory, merely approve the decision. Collina said that in trials the time taken to make a decision, compared with the previous VAR system, had fallen to 25sec from an average of 70sec.
What information goes the other way?
https://www.pogowasright.org/uk-signs-deal-to-share-police-biometric-database-with-us-border-guards/
UK signs deal to share police biometric database with US border guards
Lindsay Clark reports:
The UK has signed up to a US plan for sharing police-held biometric data about citizens with US border officials.
According to a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), the body met “informally” with representatives of the US Department of Homeland Security this week to discuss the plans.
Read more at The Register.
Just in case you were being lulled into believing the lie…
Huawei Launches New Surveillance ‘Corps’ in Creepy Military-Style Rally
During a bizarre, military-style ceremony that highlighted Huawei’s ties to China’s security state, the tech company launched a new internal business unit focused on developing artificial-intelligence-powered surveillance technology. The new unit will be focused on streamlining the embattled Chinese company’s efforts to become a worldwide leader in cutting-edge AI surveillance technology that can be deployed by cities around the world.
The ceremony puts the lie to Huawei’s global public-relations and lobbying campaigns that strive to dispel the well-founded notion that its ultimate loyalties are with the Chinese Communist Party.
Gosh! Maybe there is an App for anything…
https://www.bespacific.com/free-app-identifies-bird-species-by-sound/
Free App Identifies Bird Species by Sound
Sci-News: “The BirdNET app is a free bird sound identification app for Android and iOS that includes over 3,000 bird species. Ornithologists hope this app will reduce barriers to citizen science and generate tens of millions of bird observations globally…”
The ubiquity of smartphones combined with the power of new machine learning algorithms presents an opportunity to promote positive interactions between humans and birds and thus create new possibilities for avian research,” said lead author Dr. Connor Wood from the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and his colleagues…”
Tools & Techniques
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01830-9
Need web data? Here’s how to harvest them
Webscraping is a useful tool for gathering data from public websites, but researchers must develop some fundamental software skills to use it.
… The technical skill required isn’t trivial, but neither is it overwhelming — and the benefits can be immense, enabling researchers to collect large quantities of data rapidly without the errors inherent to manual transcription. “There’s so many resources and so much information available online,” Richards says. “It’s just sitting there waiting for someone to come and make use of it.”
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