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China is building a massive camera surveillance network. The country calls it “the world’s biggest camera surveillance network.” It has already installed 170 million CCTV cameras across the country and will install an additional 400 million cameras over the next three years. The system seems to be working fine as it was able to locate a BBC reporter in just seven minutes.
The BBC’s John Sudworth was given rare access to one of the hi-tech police control rooms from where this surveillance system is controlled. Many of the cameras that make up this system feature artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.
Some of the cameras can read faces while others can estimate age, gender, and ethnicity. Every face can be matched with an ID card, with the person’s card, and even with their relatives. That’s the depth of information that this system has access to.
The reporter’s image was flagged in the system as part of this exercise and it took the system only seven minutes to locate him. When a face is recognized by the system, an alarm is raised in the control room and the authorities are dispatched to take the person into custody.
The full video of this chase set up is available on the BBC’s website. It shows how the operators were able to leverage the CCTV surveillance network to locate the reporter in just seven minutes.
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Microsoft has announced that it’s adding new intelligent search features to Bing that are powered by artificial intelligence. The features are designed to give users answers faster, provide them more comprehensive and complete information, and enable them to interact with the search engine more naturally.
Intelligent Answers is one of the new search features that Microsoft has added to Bing. The feature leverages machine reading comprehension to read and analyze countless documents to understand the web and surface answers more quickly and confidently.
Bing will use deep neural networks to validate answers by pulling information from multiple reputable sources instead of just one. This means that users can be more confident about the answers that they get.
If there are different authoritative perspectives on a single tap, Bing will aggregate the two different positions from reputable sources and surface them to the user intelligently on the top of the page.
Bing’s comparison answers are now being expanded beyond just products. It can now list the key differences between two items or topics such as the differences between pilates vs yoga in a simple table.
Additional improvements have also been made to image search and conversational queries on Bing. All of these features are now live for Bing users.
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