Sensual vision uses a wide area video camera with a machine learning system. The makers, which ebserve company, call sentient vision, they reckon it's about 300 times faster at searching than just a human being by eye alone. It can spot someone with chacker even in ready rough seas with six meter waves. So innocent, still saving lives. But but what about when it is inevitably more widely deployed? Certainly the people who are developing it would like it to be more widely deployed. And there's already been one use where the er baltimore police department actually had a awami system, which was funded by a private donor, which they used for a period to observe things
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