Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt11

Anyone currently watching "where's my robot" on SBS ?

If so, you would have just seen something that could be incorporated almost now into creating the kind of Internet Filter that could screen "undesirable" pictorial information via A.I. rather than depending (and inflicting) upon much in the way of human intervention by way of catagorisation once initial parameters were established.

In the investigation on how to "build better sight/recognition" for the future of robotics, the documentary demonstrated a program that pitted human against A.I. in relation to identifying as to whether there was an animal in the picture or not.

The result was a tie in the demo given – which is fine considering that duplication of ability was the aim.

The AI was able to achieve the result not so much by knowing the specific animal but more to do with recognition of basic shapes, colour variations, etc.

Not too much of a stretch to imagine an A.I. doing similar sorts of identifications in relation to pr0n and the like, and the job made even easier when coupled with text information embedded in web-pages and url names, etc.

I think this kind of technology could go beyond mere current "oh, this pic has x amount of flesh tones so might/might not be pr0n so let's blat it anyway" software ... I can imagine the A.I. filter of the future actually able to apply real-time selective sound and visual censoring to live streams without the need for the entire stream to be blocked.

ie, no more Janet Jackson Superbowl moments. :)

ILCF is only going to be the beginning, and regardless of if the trials pass or fail and ILCF becomes mandatory or not, it isn't going to end there.

regarDS