Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04...impression=true

By Karen Hao

April 17, 2020

Andrew Ng’s startup Landing AI has created a new workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired distance from a colleague.

Six feet apart: On Thursday, the startup released a blog postwith a new demo video showing off a new social distancing detector. On the left is a feed of people walking around on the street. On the right, a bird’s-eye diagram represents each one as a dot and turns them bright red when they move too close to someone else. The company says the tool is meant to be used in work settings like factory floors and was developed in response to the request of its customers (which include Foxconn). It also says the tool can easily be integrated into existing security camera systems, but that it is still exploring how to notify people when they break social distancing. One possible method is an alarm that sounds when workers pass too close to one another. A report could also be generated overnight to help managers rearrange the workspace, the company says.

Under the hood: The detector must first be calibrated to map any security footage against the real-world dimensions. A trained neural network then picks out the people in the video, and another algorithm computes the distances between them.

Workplace surveillance: The concept-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Watch the demo video:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1253040931290349569

Daniel Greenfield #SaferWithTheConstitution @Sultanknish

1h

That's not a workplace. It's a public street. By the time this is done, the dot com overlords will make the USSR and North Korea look like havens of freedom

that andrew ng, his gd startup, and anyone that promotes the use of this can all go die in a gd ditch.... eff all of this horseshit..... go to hell you filthy sumbitches......

Big Tech Introduces Social Distance Tracking – CCTV Proximity Alert Warning System…
Posted on April 22, 2020, by sundance

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/22/big-tech-introduces-social-distance-tracking-cctv-proximity-alert-warning-system/

Comrades, the engineering department of the Ministry of COVID Compliance is pleased to announce the introduction of a new Proximity Alert Warning System (PAWS) coming soon to the CCTV network in your neighborhood and business.

The objective of the system is to monitor social distances and ensure a compliant society. The system is being tested in partnership with Amazon via state commissar Jeff Bezos.

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[AMAZON] will also use machine-learning software to monitor building cameras and determine whether employees are staying at safe distances during their shifts, or whether they are often huddled too close together. (link)

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Deployment of the proximity alert warning system will help our compliance office quickly respond to rebellious activity. While our Beijing comrades have an early start on similar systems, our more advanced entrepreneurial ingenuity will provide a U.S-based social distance surveillance system far superior to the Chinese version.

The FEMA Ministry can envision a day in the near future where the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will open a contract for more widespread deployment. The deployment of Artificial Intelligence surveillance will help reduce the human burden for continuous monitoring, and provide a faster response time for authorities to control rebellious human engagement.