“Smartphone Craziness” by Regina Zepeda-Albexon
Oil on canvas (80 x 100 cm)
This painting shows a father, a mother and a child together but not communicating with each other. The green, light blue and pink columns on the background represent the social separation among them. People seem to be in their own digital world. The eyes show how immersed they are in their own digital world.
Since the widespread availability of smartphones all over the world, a considerable amount of people have become obsessed about using them at all times, even at the dinner table.
The personal direct communication among families and friends has decreased, even if they get together. Everyone sits together but often interacts with the phone and not with the family nor friends.
Several studies are under way researching how much the continues usage of the smart phones affects people. Mental health problems like depression, anxiety, stress and poor sleep quality have increased in the young population.
“Facial Recognition” by Regina Zepeda-Albexon Oil on canvas (100 x 100 cm)
A facial recognition system is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or from a video screen.
There are various methods in which facial recognition identification can be done. The goal is to be able to compare the selected facial features from an image with faces within a database.
My painting represents the three dimensional facial recognition technique that uses 3D sensors to capture information about the shape of a face. This information is then used to identify distinctive features on the surface of a face, such as the contour of the eye sockets, nose, and chin.
Facial recognition cameras are widely used in many buildings and streets around the world, specially at airports. These systems can be controversial since they are tracking peoples’ whereabouts. Some countries could use it as a way to keep intensive tracking of its citizens.
I am interested in computer systems and information technology because that is the field I have been working in since I got my first job in the USA in 1984. I also worked as a system administrator for a period of 18 years in Germany. I am a computer scientist who loves art. I have always loved art as a means of expression, but I have also always loved math and logic. I love to figure out logical computer oriented solutions to challenging questions. That is what I have been doing for more than 20 years.
Here I am sharing a very good explanation about facial recognition systems found in Wikipedia. Let us all support Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
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“AI, that is the question.”70cm x 140cm oil painting on canvas by Regina Zepeda-Albexon
This is one of those “a bit weird” paintings that is not the type that you particularly “like” but that makes you have a “hmm” effect. After listening to the book “Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, by Max Tegmark, I started to create this painting.
The potential of Artificial Intelligence is mind-boggling. Innovation and advancement in science is essential and inevitable. I believe it is the duty of AI researchers and scientists to ensure that its impact is beneficial for all of us. AI systems must also be robust to ensure that autonomous systems do what we humans want them to do.
AI is already helping scientists and researchers to speed up the process in getting the solutions to combat the Coronavirus. After the structural information of the virus was available, AI immensely assisted in reducing the time it took to start the production of testing kits as well as the development of a vaccine of which more than one is already being tested in scientific laboratories around the world. AI solutions like contact tracing and monitoring technology used for the containment and mitigation of the coronavirus are very helpful but also controversial. There are numerous other ways AI is being applied. Its research and application is progressing very rapidly.
If you are interested in AI, read the open letter “Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence” published by Stuart Russell, Daniel Dewey and Max Tegmark.
https://futureoflife.org/ai-open-letter/
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