Battlezone, a first-person tank shooting game, was the first video game where players could manoeuvre through an imaginary landscape. Its developers used vector graphics, made of points and lines with no filled spaces instead of pixels, to save processing power. The system calculates the centre points of objects and uses those to decide if they should be displayed on the screen. The downside to this system is that objects disappear when they get too close because their centre points are now beyond the screen. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
