Joseph Redmon

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Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
Joseph Redmon

Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read
Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.
Joseph Redmon

Code No Evil: Why YOLO's co-creator no longer works on computer vision.

A prominent AI researcher has turned his back on computer vision over ethical issues. The co-creator of the popular object-recognition network You Only Look Once (YOLO) said he no longer works on computer vision because the technology has “almost no upside and enormous downside risk.”

March 4, 20201 min read

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