Big Tech's Super Vision

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Tech firms are using AI to do more than just help you compose emails or conduct searches. Both Baidu and Microsoft filed patent applications for tech that detects attributes of a physical environment. 

First up, let's check out Baidu. The Chinese search giant is seeking to patent a method to train an AI model for "human body attribute detection." As the name suggests, this system works by training an AI model on positive and negative "sample sub-images," or images that essentially show one person in two scenarios, complete with annotations. The AI model then can use computer vision to detect those attributes, such as whether or not a person is wearing a safety helmet.

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