Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick

Is AI Facial Recognition Good or Bad? by John R. Patrick Written: April 2023 Last week, I explained the basics of how facial recognition works. There are many pluses and minuses about use of the technology. I would now like to share a couple of examples of my personal encounters with facial recognition. One use case […]

Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/14/2023

Current Events by John R. Patrick – 04/14/2023 I  changed the name of this section from What’s new? to Current Events by John R. Patrick. Feedback told me there was some confusion about “news”. The In The News section contains news about a new publication by me or a news story which mentions me or is about me.The […]

Faces by John R. Patrick

Faces by John R. Patrick Written: March 2023 Now that I have covered cats and dogs with machine learning, I will branch out to facial recognition of humans. Facial recognition is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video camera. Facial recognition has […]

Cats and Dogs by John R. Patrick

Cats and Dogs Written: March 2023 In a Tom Friedman article on March 21, 2023, Tom quoted Craig Mundie, the former chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, as saying artificial intelligence (AI), “is going to change everything about how we do everything. I think that it represents mankind’s greatest invention to date.” That is […]

What Healthcare Innovations Can We Expect in 2023? by John R. Patrick

What Healthcare Innovations Can We Expect in 2023? Written: March 2023 The American healthcare system needs some serious innovation to solve the many challenges it faces. High cost is preventing Americans from accessing the health care services they need. Preventable medical errors are having a negative impact on the quality of care. Staffing challenges and […]