Machine Learnings -- Creepy AI surveillance, Strokes, and Gun Control

When the software thinks it has found a blockage -- suggesting the most common form of stroke -- it sends an alert to a brain specialist's smartphone asking them to review the images. The software also flags the specific images it judges to be most important. Mansi says this can save precious time -- and brain -- by bringing in specialists earlier. Usually, the call would only go out after another radiologist had read a patient's scan." Digital cameras brought about a revolution in photography, but until now, it was only a revolution of scale: Thanks to microchips, cameras got smaller and cheaper, and we began carrying them everywhere. Now, A.I. will create a revolution in how cameras work, too. Smart cameras will let you analyze pictures with prosecutorial precision, raising the specter of a new kind of surveillance -- not just by the government but by everyone around you, even your loved ones at home…Tomorrow, all cameras…won't just watch you -- they'll understand, too."