{"id":61229,"date":"2017-11-03T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61229"},"modified":"2017-11-02T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T12:54:42","slug":"dc-are-we-ok-with-this-cameras-are-watching-and-machines-are-learning-the-beginning-brackeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/11\/03\/dc-are-we-ok-with-this-cameras-are-watching-and-machines-are-learning-the-beginning-brackeen\/","title":{"rendered":"DC: How do you feel about this? &#8220;Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning&#8221; [Brackeen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1509581369404_325\"><a id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1509581369404_324\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/lovekairos\/cameras-are-watching-and-machines-are-learning-the-beginning-4152abeb2625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1509581369404_332\">Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from medium.com by Brian Brackeen<br \/>\n<em>You better believe their eyes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a new series about cameras and their relationship to face recognition, machine learning, and how, in the future, the ways in which we interact with technology will be radically different.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1509581369404_341\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>First, the data.<br \/>\n<\/strong>LDV Capital, a venture capital firm focussed on Visual Technologies, recently published a 19 page report thick with some pretty eye opening data around cameras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Specifically, how many cameras we can expect to have watching us, what they are watching us for, and how those insights will be used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1509581369404_340\">According to their study, by 2022 there will be more than 44,354,881,622 (that\u2019s 44 BILLION) cameras in use globally, collecting even more billions of images for visual collateral.<\/strong> <\/span>This is incredible &#8212; but what\u2019s interesting &#8212; is that most of these images will never be seen by human eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1000\/1*huadZ2mOLnZZvd_hMcT6kA.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Though the author asserts there will be great business opportunities surrounding this trend, I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;m comfortable with it. Embedded cameras everywhere&#8230;hmmm&#8230;what he calls a privilege (in the quote below), I see as an overstepping of boundaries. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We have the privilege of experiencing the actual evolution of a device that we have come to know as one thing, for all of our lives to this point, into something completely different, to the extent that the word \u201ccamera\u201d, itself, is becoming outdated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How do you feel about this trend?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameras are Watching and Machines are Learning: The Beginning &#8212; from medium.com by Brian Brackeen You better believe their eyes This is a new series about cameras and their relationship to face recognition, machine learning, and how, in the future, the ways in which we interact with technology will be radically different. 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