Furthermore, with object recognition now available to State Farm app users, the amount of typing is substantially decreased, and the possibility for discretion is eliminated.

Amazon insists that the service is a simple object-recognition tool and will only be used for legal purposes. But even if we take the company at its word, the project raises serious concerns ...

Krzanich said the prototype chip learned how to perform simple object recognition in the company’s labs in just several weeks.

Facial and object recognition technologies are used by the US Army to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), surveillance systems, and more.

Google has acquired a research startup founded within the University of Toronto, whose work includes object recognition.