French philosopher Rene Descartes, in his Discourse on Method, made the famous philosophical statement: Cogito, ergo sum. In his seminal paper, titled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence ’, Turing redefined the meaning of “think” and “machine” with a thought experiment, called “imitation game”. “I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage …
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This week, the Indian government is going to close the chapter on its request for bids from companies to build India’s facial-recognition system which is going to be able to automatically identify persons from CCTV footage and other image databases. When the Internet Freedom Foundation, an organisation that fights to protect personal freedoms against digital intrusion, filed requests to see …
