{"id":96095,"date":"2019-09-11T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/this-ai-uses-echolocation-to-follow-your-every-move"},"modified":"2019-09-11T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:02:29","slug":"this-ai-uses-echolocation-to-follow-your-every-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/this-ai-uses-echolocation-to-follow-your-every-move","title":{"rendered":"This AI Uses Echolocation to Follow Your Every Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-ai-uses-echolocation-to-follow-your-every-move3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you consent to a surveillance system that watches without video and listens without sound?<\/p>\n<p>If your knee-jerk reaction is \u201cno!\u201d, then \u201chuh?\u201d I\u2019m with you. <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.5096572\">In a new paper<\/a> in <em>Applied Physics Letters<\/em>, a Chinese team is wading into the complicated balance between privacy and safety with computers that can echolocate. By <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/04\/16\/this-startup-is-training-ai-to-gobble-up-the-news-and-rewrite-it-free-of-bias\/\">training AI<\/a> to sift through signals from arrays of acoustic sensors, the system can gradually learn to parse your movements\u2014standing, sitting, falling\u2014using only ultrasonic sound.<\/p>\n<p>To study author Dr. Xinhua Guo at the Wuhan University of Technology, the system may be more palatable to privacy advocates than security cameras. Because it relies on ultrasonic waves\u2014the type that bats use to navigate dark spaces\u2014it doesn\u2019t capture video or audio. It\u2019ll track your body position, but not<em> you<\/em> per se.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you consent to a surveillance system that watches without video and listens without sound? If your knee-jerk reaction is \u201cno!\u201d, then \u201chuh?\u201d I\u2019m with you. In a new paper in Applied Physics Letters, a Chinese team is wading into the complicated balance between privacy and safety with computers that can echolocate. By training AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96095","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}