Computer Vision News - April 2021

3 Spotlight News 47 Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Therapists? The WSJ article deals with the opportunity of relying on algorithms for our mental health - potential benefits and issues. It deserves a read, but it is behind a login wall. If you do not care subscribing, here is at least one of the key takehome thoughts of the feature: AI would be very powerful in analyzing large amounts of data generated from social- media posts, smartphone data, electronic health records, therapy- session transcripts, brain scans and other sources to identify patterns that are difficult for humans to discern. However, the most frequent mental diseases do not require such a complex system to diagnose, let’s say, depression. Read More Reddit: When taking pictures goes horribly wrong! Readers who follow us since the beginning, 5 years ago, know that we would have liked to have a blooper images section including the bugs of the month, submitted by our readers. We sometimes published a few of those that we found particularly funny, but we never made it a regular thing. No worries: there is actually not much need for that section, since Reddit is already doing that better than we could! Have a good laugh by watching many bug shots submitted by Redditors. Like this one called “Kitty’s head is gone...”. Yes, cat images are popular also on Reddit. Find out many more bugs What does Pierre Jannin wish Computer Vision News for our 5th anniversary? Find out on page 35!