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ROBOTS, DRONES AND APPS will be able to see the world around them and recognise objects and emotions thanks to a new tool from Google.
Google Cloud Vision API will allow any developer to create devices and software that will identify printed words and objects, and classify them into thousands of different categories.
It can also detect faces and recognise emotions like happiness, sadness and anger.
The technology is already used in Google Photos. Unless you tag a photo with specific terms like ‘orange’ or ‘dog’, a computer won’t be able to find them as it doesn’t look at the content of an image. Google Photos can recognise and pick out the main subject in photos and tag them as such.
Now it’s opening up that technology to other developers to use and develop their own systems around it. In one of the demos for the tool, a small custom robot can identify objects like money, a banana, and glasses.
It detects emotions by looking at the positions of the eyes, nose, and mouth, but Google says the tool does not allow them to recognise personal identities.
It already has competitors in the field like Microsoft pushing Project Oxford, its own computer vision and recognition tool that can detect emotions, recognise language and has speech recognition.
Also, Facebook has been working on its own image description technology, although that is more for users who are blind or visually impaired.
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Is Charlie Flanagan still TD Ah here I give up
This government has managed to get the lifetime of their own government out of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It was lauded in the beginning as a template for change. That was in 2019. The public and others were invited to make submissions in 2020, With the report due for release that December. December came and went, and the report was finally released in february, the Govt sat on it until making the obvious decision to accept the recommendations of LOA2 in July, but with an implementation group who would report back in 6 months. We’ll not go to LOA2 right away though, we’ll do it in phases, increasing defence spending in increments equal to the cost of One military aircraft per year.Here we are now almost June 2023, with nothing substantial achieved apart from a few more high paid civil service posts filled.
Tanagan would have us fighting under the Union Flag if he could. Does anybody really care what he says in this day and age?
Ireland should be a respected neutral country with an army capable of defending the country. Personally I would like weapons that could kill lots of people, this would deter even the worlds biggest countries from invading us.
@Brian Boru:
Nukes…
@Gerry Dornan: whoopee cushions. Can you imagine Putin sitting on one?
Maybe he should get the black and Tans to help out
I’m surprised at Cathal Berry. He should know the one person that will slow this process down to a crawl on that committee. Waiting to appoint a Head of Transformation (there must be a civil servant due retirement)someone who will then appoint someone and hey presto it will be election time. The Sec of the Department was put there for a reason. To make sure Defence is treated at a snails pace. Give nothing to the Military at all costs. I have never seen a Secretary of the Department do or introduce anything constructive EVER. Thats why they are kept.
So the chairperson in charge of a committee for implementing modernisation after meeting 6 times says that a head of transformation is due to be appointed but that other measures are delayed because of the IRG group publication which delayed the development of an implement implementation plan, and that the establishment of an (enquiry) and development of the terms of reference for it and potential interface on both of those and ensuring that the implementation plan is comprehensive also delayed. Please read that back and realise why so much goes at the snails pace mentioned in the article
We should arm and uniform our new Irish brothers, that would be great for everyone.
So the notoriously thin-skinned Flanagan, who was rightly demoted after the last general election, is mouthing off again…
Yawn!
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@Real Chieflice Trump MAGA 2024:
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