Imagine being able to understand your pet’s feelings by simply snapping a photo of them. Right now, AI is learning to do just that, by recognizing the subtle facial cues and muscle contractions of animals that we humans cannot see. Researchers at the Tech4Animals lab, in Haifa, northern Israel, are training this algorithm by using thousands of photos and videos of cats, dogs, and even wildlife... “The idea of the lab is to do anything related to AI and technology to promote animal welfare, and to develop tools to study behaviour and internal states, such as pain and emotions.” https://nocamels.com/2023/04/digital-dr-dolittle-uses-ai-to-read-animals-faces/
Recognising the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the European Parliament co-legislators have agreed to prohibit:biometric categorisation systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race);untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases;emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions;social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).
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