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I saw no mention if they removed the ability for it to sex a fetus, if they haven't it will be a tool for aborting female babies.
by nerpderp83 9y ago
I saw no mention if they removed the ability for it to sex a fetus, if they haven't it will be a tool for aborting female babies.
- guelo 9y agoThat seems like an impossible feature for an imaging device. I guess you could train a neural network to recognize fetus gender and blur out the crotch area on the image.
- nerpderp83 9y agoThey rely heavily on AI for processing the data, they absolutely could remove the ability for gender identification.
- pcl 9y agoThat depends on how they're applying their "AI technology." Maybe it's to improve the SNR for a given pixel? Maybe it's to interpolate additional resolution between pixels / lines? It seems possible, but not necessarily likely, that they're doing whole-image post-processing / analysis.
- sumedh 9y agoNot sure why you are getting downvoted but if this device becomes popular in developing countries like India there will be a lot of aborted female babies.
- nbanks 9y agoI never understood the logic of this issue. If a fetus is human, then both male and female fetuses should be protected. If a fetus is not human, then this can't be a women's rights issue because women are human. If abortion is acceptable, parents should be able to choose to abort for whatever reason they want. Also if you withhold the sex of the baby in case some parents may abort due to gender, why allow screening for down syndrome since this is a much more common reason to abort?
- nerpderp83 9y ago> parents should be able to choose to abort for whatever reason they want. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/opinion/missing-50-million-indian-girls.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/opinion/missing-50-million...