Is there no end?

*Deep learning*...It seems the *panacea* for everything that is complicated in *computer vision and pattern recognition*.

Well, people can do very interesting things. For instance, THIS.

Youtube video, below.

Rachel Thomas and *The democratic Artificial Intelligence*

Very nice *Ted-Talk* by Prof. Rachel Thomas on avenues and opportunities in Artificial Intelligence.

There are several *take home messages* here, but my favourite appears at (mm:ss) 16:18 in this video:

...Sometimes people ask me if it is dangerous to make AI accessible to more people. What is dangerous is a homogeneous & exclusive group creating technology that impacts us all.

Video, below. Well worth the time.

Human Rights and Beings...

I am glad to see how machine learning is taking new avenues that will hopefully help us being *a better society*.

Research made by people like Dr. Kristian Lum (link HERE) is definitely going in this direction...

On the other hand, I can frankly feel how this field of research is accelerating and impacting more and more...

Examples of this are the *brand new* degree programs that are being offered (link HERE - and video in there worth having a look into).

Data driven science? Why not, *purists*? Come down from your pedestal!

Computer Vision and Machine Learning *reinforce* themselves in order to get aims that are impacting daily lives of almost any human being on Earth. Denying that is simply straying from the truth.

Models applied in Computer Vision work many times based on data and are *built from* data.

That is NOT inherently wrong!

Many times there is NO other way to do it!

Waiting for a *non data-driven* model to be obtained could take centuries, in some cases!

This is (below) what Computer Vision and Machine Learning have got so far. Congratulations to those who achieved this and also to those people who genuinely appreciate it!

It is a little bit old (2017, :-)) but worth seeing it.