Minoosh
Penultimate Amazing
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It started when I accidentally hit "add a caption" to a picture on my phone. It produced my image, only with my dachshund's body outlined and identified as a dachshund.
So photo recognition software is going into my photos and identifying things, great. (I wonder how it would react to human nudity but don't want to experiment.)
Then later a "pet friends" video appeared at the top of some random thing my phone does, which is to highlight one of my photos on a certain screen. A dashboard thingy. Only this wasn't anything I'd produced. It had reached into my phone and found a lot of video from when my dog was a puppy and getting socialized to other dogs on the retirement campus where I lived with my mom. This was in spring 2020 and the place went into hard lockdown for months with one respite being the dog park where we could socially distance while our dogs played.
It was a pretty decent video, it knew how to capture the outlines of dogs in play, zero in on their faces, splice together the most active shots and splice together at a very high rate. It did not include any people.
Why is this happening? I have a feeling this is an iPhone term and/or condition I MUST have OK'd - otherwise WTF? Or, WTH? Is it an iCloud thing? Is this artificial intelligence? I know dog videos seem like a trivial application, but it was essentially using the techniques of propaganda.
It also occurs to me this could and maybe already is producing "sports highlights" reels instantaneously.
Maybe this isn't artificial intelligence. That must mean more than photo recognition and good algorithms for producing happy dog highlight reels. Its ability to recognize a dog by breed impressed me, but then, a dachshund is not much of a test.
So photo recognition software is going into my photos and identifying things, great. (I wonder how it would react to human nudity but don't want to experiment.)
Then later a "pet friends" video appeared at the top of some random thing my phone does, which is to highlight one of my photos on a certain screen. A dashboard thingy. Only this wasn't anything I'd produced. It had reached into my phone and found a lot of video from when my dog was a puppy and getting socialized to other dogs on the retirement campus where I lived with my mom. This was in spring 2020 and the place went into hard lockdown for months with one respite being the dog park where we could socially distance while our dogs played.
It was a pretty decent video, it knew how to capture the outlines of dogs in play, zero in on their faces, splice together the most active shots and splice together at a very high rate. It did not include any people.
Why is this happening? I have a feeling this is an iPhone term and/or condition I MUST have OK'd - otherwise WTF? Or, WTH? Is it an iCloud thing? Is this artificial intelligence? I know dog videos seem like a trivial application, but it was essentially using the techniques of propaganda.
It also occurs to me this could and maybe already is producing "sports highlights" reels instantaneously.
Maybe this isn't artificial intelligence. That must mean more than photo recognition and good algorithms for producing happy dog highlight reels. Its ability to recognize a dog by breed impressed me, but then, a dachshund is not much of a test.