This tutorial teaches you the basics of object detection via the YOLO (You Only Look Once) algorithm, which is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system. The original YOLO paper is available here. The official YOLO repository is here. While this tutorial does not require a thorough understanding of how YOLO works, here is a great article if you are really interested in a deep dive. This tutorial uses the most recent generation of YOLO (called YOLOv5).

Every year we get closer and closer to becoming a society that has everything automated for us using artificial intelligence. I myself can walk into my bedroom and say "Alexa, it's bedtime." She will then proceed to turn off my smart lights, ask me if I need an alarm set, turn on my window AC and then my ambient sounds. If I'm driving down the road and need to make a hands-free call, I simply say, "Hey google, call dad" and just like that I can talk hands-free via blue-tooth without lifting a finger. Of course there are theories that we as a society are becoming more reliant on technology which makes us lazy and dumb, but I ignore those types of thoughts and welcome the new age.

Barking off orders to Alexa and Siri without so much as a please or thank you likely isn't going to become a habit you carry over into the rest of your life. This is because adults have already formed their behaviours for interacting with others -- and, in their current form, we don't see smart assistants as people. Researchers came to this conclusion after talking with over 200 people and seeing how they interacted with digital assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. However, children may be more susceptible to forming impolite habits from talking to smart assistants -- partly because they are more likely to personify them. Adults may begin to be more influenced by their interactions with smart machines as their designs more more human-like or relatable, however, the researchers added.