{"id":20401,"date":"2016-01-02T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/artificial-intelligence-finally-entered-our-everyday-world"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:12:40","slug":"artificial-intelligence-finally-entered-our-everyday-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/artificial-intelligence-finally-entered-our-everyday-world","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Finally Entered Our Everyday World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-finally-entered-our-everyday-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ng hands me a tiny device that wraps around my ear and connects to a smartphone via a small cable. It looks like a throwback\u2014a smartphone earpiece without a Bluetooth connection. But it\u2019s really a glimpse of the future. In a way, this tiny device allows the blind to see.<\/p>\n<p>Ng is the chief scientist at Chinese tech giant Baidu, and this is one of the company\u2019s latest prototypes. It\u2019s called DuLight. The device contains a tiny camera that captures whatever is in front of you\u2014a person\u2019s face, a street sign, a package of food\u2014and sends the images to an app on your smartphone. The app analyzes the images, determines what they depict, and generates an audio description that\u2019s heard through to your earpiece. If you can\u2019t see, you can at least get an idea of what\u2019s in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is changing not only the way we use our computers and smartphones but the way we interact with the real world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/2015-was-the-year-ai-finally-entered-the-everyday-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Ng hands me a tiny device that wraps around my ear and connects to a smartphone via a small cable. It looks like a throwback\u2014a smartphone earpiece without a Bluetooth connection. But it\u2019s really a glimpse of the future. In a way, this tiny device allows the blind to see. Ng is the chief [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1506,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-food","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51203,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions\/51203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}