Goodmoring everyone and welcome to @peppuz.
I saw your video about OCR and It was really easy to understand, it gave me a little view on how Ai works! You also mention a lot of themes connecting to the problem of an Intelligent System to act like a human in terms of evaluating risks of environments or simply thinking about what could be the best decision (always watching the problem with emotions). Due to this, it seems that nowadays or in the near future, AI is not going to loom over humanity, but who knows. One of the first steps to hide our data is using other search engine instead of Google, but the majority of people is not so expert in this theme and apart from this, the discussion about AI and privacy is not so examined in depth by Media, and so, only few people study this problem very deeply.
As shared by @jessinthebox96, Kate O’Neill is surely right to doubt the #10yearschallenge. And as the journalist write in the article, and I think is the heart of the problem, people is not often AWARE of the consequences of his/her photos or videos or data shared. Personally I did not share my #10yearschallenge, but on my Instagram homepage and stories, maybe 70% or more of my “following” shared this challenge… Did they know the possible consequences? I found a book written by Zamperini “Manuale di disobbedienza digitale” that give us advices to face the requests of social networks. It seems really concrete and also funny to read. In the end, there are a lot of positive implementations of AI, specifically with facial recognition, as you shared above, but there are negative too. And so we return at the starting point: are we agreeable to give up our privacy in favour of medicine or security?
Even if @marcopastore is suggesting the idea of using facial recognition on trains, I agree with @davidetoniolo. The only trains that work efficiently in Italy are Frecciarossa and Italo but referring to local trains, it is a shame. However, ideally this solution is really worthy, as Amazon Go (forgetting for a moment all the problems we mention above about privacy), because it could improve the security on trains but also people would be forced to pay ticket. This will lead to more and more financial resouces to train companies that results in better services. Hope that Gianluigi Castelli, head of Ferrovie dello Stato, will turn around to innovation in general and AI, since he is deep expert on IT. A great app is Nugo, were the users only indicate the origin and the destination address and the app chooses the itinerary among all possible solutions and combinations of means of transport and fares. At the end the users can buy all the tickets (metro, train, bus, car sharing..) This app is not so widespread but I think that it’s a beginning in order to use all transports, with more integration and more efficiency.
In 2013 one of the first metros without driver was set up for the line 5 in Milan (there were also in Turin). In this direction we see that the future of driving is without driver. Not only metros but also cars: there are especially two companies (old start ups): Argo and Waymo. Their missions are similar: they both assert that security will be assured in driving, preventing errors and accident caused by distractions.
In order to conclude, as you can see from this figure, the Hype Cycle of Gartner (it describes the fundamental phases of life of a new technology), Artificial Intelligence is one of the mega-trends among the emerging technologies because the impact on industries can be enormous. In 10 years the world will need lots of experts and specialist who know how to work with AI, machine learning and so on. For the 5 emerging technology trends, you can read this article.
Have a nice day,
Francesca Tomasello