Smart City or Surveillance City?
As detailed in New Scientist, in Toronto, and numerous different urban areas around the world, 'keen city' ventures are in progress. The idea of foundation interlinked by programming isn't new. Having Artificial Intelligence (AI) utilize information to effectively enhance our regular day to day existences appears like a beneficial undertaking. This isn't only some modern idea, concerning the previous a year, the city of Hangzhou in China has worked together with Alibaba and Foxcom to assemble the "City Brain" venture, where AI began to run the city. For as far back as year AI has been sucking up each drop of information it could get its virtual hands on. Essentially every inhabitant is followed; their action on informal communities, their buys, their developments, their drives - everything is transferred to the AI's databases, where continuous choices are made. The expressed objective of the task is to enhance life in Hangzhou by giving manmade brai...