3 AI things you might have missed today: Camera lens replacement AI, new Amazon AI engine, etc.
June has begun and brings with it more exciting developments in the world of artificial intelligence. Highlighting another use case of AI, Meta and YouTube have revealed that they are using AI to remove disturbing content, including videos of war crimes, from their platforms. In other news, Photographica emerged as a unique AI tool that claims to replace camera lenses with location data. Amazon will soon use AI tools to screen for damaged goods and reduce the number of returned orders. This and more in today’s AI compendium. Let us have a look.
AI replaces camera lenses
AI tools continue to blow our minds. A new AI site called Paragraphica puts the limits of what artificial intelligence can make the next level. The website uses location data from your device to know where you are and then uses local information such as time of day, address, weather, and surrounding areas to write a paragraph about that area. And then it uses complex algorithms and machine learning to turn the text into an image. Unlike other text-to-image platforms, this one is based on how the AI sees the place.
Amazon uses AI tools to screen for damaged goods
According to one report by the Wall Street Journal, Amazon will soon be rolling out a bunch of AI tools in its warehouse. These tools will screen items for damage before sending them to the customer. Amazon believes the tool will allow it to cut back on return orders as well as speed up picking, packaging, and ultimately delivery of orders.
Meta, YouTube is using AI to take down disturbing content
Meta and YouTube have been removing disturbing content for a while. Recently, these companies have started using AI tools to detect and remove such videos from their platforms. Now, a new BBC report stated that this could lead to war crimes cases being removed from the platform which could be used as evidence to bring justice to the victims.
Highlighting how AI removes evidence of human rights abuses, the report covers the case of a travel journalist who uploaded to Instagram and YouTube videos of civilians including men, women and children being killed by military forces. Russian team shot dead. But within a minute, three of the four videos were removed by the platform for posting violent content.
This has raised questions about the ethical and contextual decision-making capabilities of artificial intelligence.
