Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible. Today, computer vision systems do it with greater than 99 percent accuracy. How? Joseph Redmon works on the YOLO (You Only Look Once) system, an open-source method of object detection that can identify objects in ...

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Joseph works on the YOLO algorithm, a real-time algorithm for detecting and identifying objects in images. It's technology that can be used in self-driving vehicles, cancer screening, robotics, or any other visual task. But when the military gets interested in using computer vision for drone warfare Joe starts to question the ethics of research ...