Computers now outperform humans in recognizing faces.
For scientists and engineers involved with face-recognition technology,the recently released results of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge--more fully, the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006--have been a quiet triumph. Sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995. Indeed, the best face-recognition algorithms now perform more accurately than most humans can manage.
I expect artificial intelligence to come about as a result of advances made to solve many practical computing problems. Computer face recognition, like computer voice recognition, has many useful applications. Attempts to meet market needs will push development of algorithms to solve an increasing variety of the problems that human minds can solve. Artificial intelligence will become easy to create once we reach a critical mass of accumulated algorithms that replace humans for performing many tasks.
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it might be , that in some time , the high availability of artificial intelligence , will diminish greatlly the usefullness of human intelligence.
this could have big effects on human society , similarly to the effect of industrial revolution.
one possible scenario for this is that the value of human intellectual work would diminish greatly , and instead will become a care based society (most jobs would center around the element of human connection ) as the futurist ian pearson has written.
it would be really interesting to see this
it might be , that in some time , the high availability of artificial intelligence , will diminish greatlly the usefullness of human intelligence.
this could have big effects on human society , similarly to the effect of industrial revolution.
one possible scenario for this is that the value of human intellectual work would diminish greatly , and instead will become a care based society (most jobs would center around the element of human connection ) as the futurist ian pearson has written.
it would be really interesting to see this
Indeed it would, but I assume by that time most 'humans' won't remain Homo sapiens sapiens, and that human enhancement via genetic engineering or cybernetics will be more acceptable. My worry is that such enhancement would be limited to certain socio-economic classes.
My worry is that such enhancement would be limited to certain socio-economic classes.
That makes for interesting movie plots but simply never happens in the real world. The market--whether the free market or the black market--won't let it happen.