Amazon's Drones Should Also Be Used For Surveillance!

According to an Amazon patent, the in-house drones should not only deliver packages in the future but also be used for surveillance. Amazon customers should be able to book appropriate services.

For many years Amazon has been working on carrying packages with drones. If the aircraft does not ship packages, they should perform surveillance operations, according to a new Amazon patent. The patent indicates that the company wants to market "unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance as a service". Customers could choose to fly over their locations every week, every day or every hour, the newspaper The Independent writes.

The US Patent Office has approved the underlying patent on June 18. Any concerns about privacy are met by the patent with the promise to monitor only previously authorized areas. According to the British Daily Mail, both property owners and nearby residents must agree to surveillance.

Recently, Amazon has presented a new model of its autonomous delivery docks. The drone is said to be about the size of a human and "able to detect static and moving objects," said Jeff Wilke, Worldwide Consumer CEO at Amazon. The company uses real-time image recognition developed specifically for the drone. This could also be used for surveillance purposes. Alternatively, the images could also be evaluated in the cloud or by humans. Suspicious is then the system as a warning by phone, send e-mail or SMS to the user, a security service, the police or the fire department.

In addition to the camera according to the patent further sensors are used, for example, a chemical sensor to be used for the detection of fires, noise sensors, and thermal imaging cameras.

"The World Is Not Ready For Deepnude Yet"

The success of the AI nude generator was too much for the small development team: first, the download server crashed and then the team announced the end of the project. With Deepnude GAN's images of clothed women could be transformed into pictures of naked women.

The developers of the machine-learning app Deepnude have announced the end of the project. "The world is not ready for Deepnude," team member Alberto writes on Twitter. The developers also seem to follow their conscience a bit: "We do not want to make any money like that." With the $ 50 software, pictures of clothed women can be transformed so that they appear naked. The method is reminiscent of other projects like deepfakes , where people's faces are modeled on other people. In Deepnude, however, there are body parts such as bare skin, breasts, and vagina, which are placed over the clothing.

The popularity of the software has exceeded the expectations of the developers drastically. About 500,000 people are said to have downloaded the software from the server. "If 500,000 people use it, chances are they'll use it wrong," say the developers. The server was also broken down under the burden of inquiries, which led to the failure of the download service. The team was not prepared for the fast viral status of the app.

Pictures of women easy to find
Deepnude uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which have been trained using a variety of images from mostly pornographic content on the Internet. The finished application works only with female bodies because according to developer Alberto it is easy to find them in quantity. The program would not be so easily transferred to the opposite sex for obvious anatomical reasons, stature, proportions and gender characteristics, unless another GAN is trained with male source images.

Owners of the application can no longer upgrade to the premium version with the announcement. Money can be demanded back on request. There will also be no new versions of the software. But that will not stop the Internet from spreading it - the developer is aware of that.