Sony announces camera sensor chips with built-in AI processing

Sony has shown off what it's calling "the world's first image sensors to be equipped with AI processing functionality." These new sensors handle AI image analysis on board, so only the necessary data can be sent for further cloud processing. Artificial Intelligence is a natural pair with digital video cameras. They take in monstrous amounts of data, the vast majority of which is of no interest to anybody, particularly when you're talking about things like security cameras. As automation continues to escalate, we're going to need AI to keep an eye on more and more camera feeds. Checkout-free stores in the vein of Amazon's minimally staffed Go shop must constantly monitor dozens, if not hundreds of cameras to figure out who's picking up what, and what they're doing with it.