Researchers have created a machine that they claim can tell if a person is a convicted criminal simply from their facial features. The artificial intelligence, created at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was able to correctly identify criminals from a selection of 186 photos nine out of 10 times by assessing their eyes, nose and mouth.
Continue reading… “Minority Report-style AI learns to predict if people are criminals”
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.
Continue reading… “Somebody Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet”
Researchers have warned that robots and computers will pursue more criminal activities than humans by 2040.
Tracey Follows from The Future Laboratory, which helps businesses plan for the future, said: “Once robots can be hacked to become suicide-bombing machines, lone-robot attacks could become rife.”
Continue reading… “By 2040 Robots ‘will commit more crime than humans’”
Robots are becoming an inevitable part of our future.
But questions remain over whether the increased use of artificial intelligence will be a good thing for humanity.
Now academics are becoming concerned that autonomous machines will break the law – and we will be powerless to stop them.
Continue reading… “Experts warn that Robots could become CRIMINALS”
Aptonomy Inc. has developed drone technology that could make prison breaks, robberies or malicious intrusions of any kind impossible for mere mortals.
Dubbing it a kind of “flying security guard,” the company has built its systems on top of a drone often used by movie-makers, the DJI S-1000+, a camera-carrying octocopter.
Continue reading… “Introducing the self-flying security guard”
Police are having to investigate a fourfold rise in the number of crime reports involving shop bought drones – including allegations they are being used by paedophiles over children’s playgrounds, peeping toms spying through bedroom windows, burglars scoping out people’s properties, and even cash point scammers recording PIN numbers.
Continue reading… “Drone reports to UK police soar 352%”
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