Online with Smart Software, Robots, and Obesity

September 1, 2018

I recall a short article called “A Starfish-Killing, Artificially Intelligent Robot Is Set to Patrol the Great Barrier Reef.”The story appeared in 2016. I clipped this item a few days ago: “Centre for Robotic Vision Uses Bots to Cull Starfish.” The idea is that environmental protection becomes easier with killer robots.

Now combine that technology application with “Artificial Intelligence Spots Obesity from Space.” The main idea is that smart software can piece together items of data to figure out who is fat and where fat people live.

What happens if a clever tinkerer hooks together robots which can take action to ensure termination with smart software able to identify a target.

I mention this technology confection because the employees who object to an employer’s technology may be behind the curve. The way technology works is that innovations work a bit like putting Lego blocks together. Separate capabilities can be combined in interesting ways.

Will US employees’ refusal to work on certain projects act like a stuck brake on a rental car?

Worth thinking about before a killer satellite identifies a target and makes an autonomous decision about starfish or other entities. Getting online has interesting applications.

Why search when one can target via algorithms?

Stephen E Arnold, September 1, 2018

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under algorithms, News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.