The Pigs are Alright
With the advent of facial recognition and its rapid advancement in places such as China, robots, drones and literally anyone will have data and sentiment analytics on our emotions.
Think about it, any app that has access to your camera, any CT camera in any city. Any national defense agency will have unique insights into potentially your mental health and self-regulation management. A view into your deepest psychology.
The 5G IoT world of AI and the 4th industrial revolution is in essence also a mind-reading connected world. A world where robots will be able to pin-point your emotional state.
In March, 2019 it was revealed that Scientists are using facial recognition technology to assess pigs’ emotional states in a project to help improve animal well-being. Those pigs are smarter than we think. Indeed, Pigs are highly expressive and previous research from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has shown they can signal their intentions to other pigs using different facial expressions.
Our smart devices, drones, robots and kiosks will be using facial recognition in different ways all with the capability to “sense” our emotions via facial recognition software and machine learning. This development will one day allow more emotionally perceptive machines to detect changes in a person’s health or mental state. The smart machines and the connected economy will be serving us based on emotional and facial cues we might not even be aware we are making. This is also another layer of what I call surveillance capitalism.
Not to mention that a lot of our facial recognition is biased and perpetuates bias like we are seeing with algorithms. Sort of like some of the tech local police agencies are acquiring. However Chinese facial recognition startups are likely the future of this tech as China has implemented a surveillance net that’s unparalleled. Behind the great firewall is the great eye of Sauron, so to speak. I guess we’ll learn to live with that too.
Animal behaviourists from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh have teamed up with machine vision experts at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) for the study — the pig study that is.
Essentially facial recognition technology could be used to incentivize the social credit and gamified behavioral control that the Chinese Government and other states are likely to want to create. Artificial Intelligence will be used for this and it’s more pink than the Black Mirror use case.
2019 and 2020 are some of the most important years in the development of emotional and sentiment analytics via facial recognition technology. Indeed researchers have trained robots to identify the emotions conveyed in 3,500 variations of human facial expressions. Such robots could help detect symptoms of depression or assist those with autism recognize others’ emotions. However there are many potentially less benign applications too.
It’s one thing to use it on Pigs, quite another to put this into use on humans. Without much regulation or ethics in AI, you can quickly see how this will get out of control.
In China facial recognition of a citizen is also a matter of mere seconds.
Few of us can easily understand or estimate the impact and implications of a world where embedded facial recognition that can read our emotions in real-time will be “live”. As a futurist, this is the kind of world I think about.
Pigs and robots, and augmented humans. A world of ubiquitous facial recognition and sentiment analytics is coming. It denotes a world where things will be even more transparent. A world where privacy and surveillance will have new relationships and our control of our data will depend also on our ability to not wear our heart on our sleeve.
The Pigs are Alright
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