Computer Vision News - September 2023

Computer Vision News 12 Women in Computer Vision curb, which has a blue light, then sometimes it reaches the wrong decision. There were already people harmed. In that sense, we already have some situations where selfdriving cars or, in general, robots, because self-driving cars are nothing else than a robot, cause harm to humans. Is it worth it to incur all these harms and, at the same time, get the benefits? I think it’s definitely worth it. There are a huge amount of benefits which we see. If we then have selfdriving cars which are reliable, I think it will be a great help. Also, think of robots in general. I mean, in the whole area of logistics. During the pandemic, it could actually substitute people. Otherwise, companies like Amazon could not have delivered their packages. There, it was a great advantage. Also, if you think of the elderly at home, in the demographic change, robots could be a great help to keep them in their homes and assist them. Think also of ChatGPT. It’s discussed very diversely, but for instance, a lot of my colleagues right now use ChatGPT to write a draft of a report, and then they personalize it a bit. It helps people in various different ways. If we make it trustworthy, then it will be a tremendous help also in very sensitive areas. Think also, for instance, medicine. This is already used for detecting skin cancer. If you go to a doctor, typically, they take images of your skin and the different spots, and then it’s analyzed by an AI-based algorithm, which is often much better than the human doctor. The advantage is that the human doctor looks at it and then decides based on that. It’s not only the AI that decides, which I think is a great advantage, but there it’s a great help to the doctor. In that sense, I think it’s definitely worth it. If I hear you correctly, we will take the risk and run on the runway and see what happens. Yes, exactly. Do you have any advice for younger scholars? They are starting their careers in confusing times.

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