"You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people; people like you. Crimes the government considered 'irrelevant'. They wouldn't act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number's up... we'll find you". -- Opening to Person of Interest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQKsYXH2LCM

Combine this with some nice AI and we can make a terminator.

This is the kind of thing that will lead to computers that can think like humans. After all, our brains have image-recognition algorithms too, the main difference is they're analog and organic, constantly tweaking and updating to best fit the inputs.

Eden of the East mobile phone search scanners here we come! :-D

Question: how long before "human" is reclassified as "meatbags"?

What with all the NSA and GCHQ prying into our privacy and software like this, one is forced to wonder where the checks and balances are to ensure technology doesn't get out of control.
Even if we froze technological development at the stage it is currently at, we have probably reached a point where we have sufficient ingredients to make a technological primeval soup from which could grow a non-human or at least a minimal human military. It is not as though numbers are a problem. Unlike a human, once put into storage these automatons do not need much in the way of upkeep and even that could be automated.
Of course we will not freeze technological development. It will continue to follow the exponential trajectory that it is currently on, with all that that implies.
There is a move to name the age we are living in, the anthropocene. I wonder how long it will last.

Bt & Others, the Skynet reference is obvious. My concern is how quickly pinheads like Ed Snowden collaborate with those nice people from the People's Liberation Army, or the Federal Security Bureau, (Russians), or the devout folks from any number of Jihadist groups, or the Persians, etc., to liberate this algorithm and share it anywhere.

If its affordable, it would be a great addition to home security systems. With a couple more capabilities, it could tell the difference between a real hummingbird and a RC version.