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I'm quite surprised here to not have seen anyone point out the way these patent games typically work inside of a big company. Often a company is motivated to i

I'm quite surprised here to not have seen anyone point out the way these patent games typically work inside of a big company. Often a company is motivated to increase their IP portfolio. In turn they motivate their engineers by offering lucrative bonuses for each patent filed. At my last company we played this game and it was roughly $3k per patent. In general, out of the huge number of patents that get filed in a big company, very few---if any---have any hope of ever seeing the light of day as an actual invention. While I agree that the technology itself is somewhat alarming and I personally disagree with the idea of anyone building it, let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world?

JohnFen 8y ago
"let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world?" Perhaps enough outrage now would prevent it from being deployed, or would get them to engage in at least a tiny amount of mitigation of the worst aspects of it.
gambler 8y ago
>let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world? By that time someone will make "the train had sailed" comment. I.e. claim that nothing can be done, because consumers had spoken and the technology is already being deployed en mass.
_37go 8y ago
it's already deployed. Ring has the best facial recognition team is Eastern Europe. it's shitty software but amazon's working on integrating rekognition with ring's own tech. over 80 police departments currently use the product to track 'suspicious people' as flagged by users or their AI. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkgpw/smart-doorbell-company-ring-is-working-with-cops-to-report-suspicious-people-and-activities https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkgpw/smart-door...

JohnFen 8y ago

"let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world?" Perhaps enough outrage now would prevent it from being deployed, or would get them to engage in at least a tiny amount of mitigation of the worst aspects of it.

gambler 8y ago

>let's maybe save the outrage until they announce that they are actually going to build this thing and deploy it in the real world? By that time someone will make "the train had sailed" comment. I.e. claim that nothing can be done, because consumers had spoken and the technology is already being deployed en mass.

_37go 8y ago

it's already deployed. Ring has the best facial recognition team is Eastern Europe. it's shitty software but amazon's working on integrating rekognition with ring's own tech. over 80 police departments currently use the product to track 'suspicious people' as flagged by users or their AI. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkgpw/smart-doorbell-company-ring-is-working-with-cops-to-report-suspicious-people-and-activities https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkgpw/smart-door...