Training Computers to See

Over the past few decades, computer vision has held the promise of making the world a better place, from aiding the blind to helping doctors better analyze medical imagery. But as it turns out, teaching computers to see has some unintended consequences. Joseph Redmon, a researcher at the University of Washington and computer vision researcher, tells the story of the history of this quickly evolving technology, as well as his own experience seeing a something he built be put to uses he’d never envisioned — applications that might, quite literally, be used to kill. Find out more at rawdatapodcast.com

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Training Computers to See is an episode from Raw Data by Stanford, PRX, and The Sloan Foundation.

This episode is 17:56 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2019.

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