Sony Says It Created World's First Image Sensor With Built-in AI

Sony touted on Thursday the world's first image sensors with built-in artificial intelligence, promising to make data-gathering tasks much faster and more secure. Calling it the first of its kind, Sony said the technology would give "intelligent vision" to cameras for retail and industrial applications. From a report: The new sensors are akin to tiny self-contained computers, incorporating a logic processor and memory. They're capable of image recognition without generating any images, allowing them to do AI tasks like identifying, analyzing or counting objects without offloading any information to a separate chip. Sony said the method provides increased privacy while also making it possible to do near-instant analysis and object tracking. Sony joins tech giants like Huawei and Google that have been building dedicated AI silicon to help accelerate everything from image processing to machine learning.

Yes, yes!

[Frosty Piss]

And Mobil has has SYNERGY in it!

Re:

[TurboStar]

Now with 300% more AI. It's what plants crave.

What could these be used for?

[SaBumNim]

Target acquired.

Odd Timing

[cusco]

Interesting that Sony releases this now that they've completely exited the security camera business. Not that I ever really like their security cameras anyway, their quality control has always been suited more to a consumer market rather than professionals.

WooHoo!! a chip with an included algorithm!

[Fly Swatter]

But there is nothing intelligent about it.

privacy implications

[rapjr]

This could improve privacy if all the processing remains internal, however there are several ways it could reduce privacy and create problems depending on what you do with the AI output. For example, the AI output could deny access to buildings if it detects a person is a child (good for industrial settings, not so good if you're a short adult) or it could deny access if it detects a person is white or female (bad for society). The video data might all be processed internally, but if the chip also has a v