This AI Uses Echolocation to Identify What You're Doing

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: This AI Uses Echolocation to Identify What You're Doing
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:05:21
• Published: 2019-05-29 13:12

Guo Xinhua wants to teach computers to echolocate. He and his colleagues have built a device, about the size of a thin laptop, that emits sound at frequencies 10 times higher than the shrillest note a piccolo can sustain. The pitches it produces are inaudible to the human ear. When Guo’s team aims the device at a person and fires an ultrasonic pitch, the gadget listens for the echo using its hundreds of embedded microphones.