What's changed in recent years are the tools used to detect intent--namely, a person's online activity.
Often those replays are so indecisive that they blur the issue — while touching bodies can be detected, intent is guesswork.
Through a few complex algorithms and some number crunching, we can detect criminal intent before it actually happens.
However, Georgian officials detect darker intent, which they hint is rooted in Russia's age-old desire to dominate Georgia.
U.S. troops in Afghanistan may open fire only if they detect hostile intent or actions in the battlefield.
Now, the team is working to improve on their glove control strategies that will allow the system to detect the intent of the wearer.
With electrodes attached to the scalps and right legs of drivers in a driving simulator, they used both electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG) respectively to detect the intent to brake.
Demonstration of the soft robotic glove improving functional grasp in a muscular dystrophy patient will be shared, as well as preliminary efforts of a control system that can detect the intent of the wearer so as to enable intuitive operation.
That experience, he said, was the catalyst for exploring how a screening measure to detect terrorist intent — a rare occurrence — compares with tests doctors use to diagnose a rare medical condition.
The AI/ML system also handles errors and offers features like sentiment analysis to analyze emails and detect their intent, with the ability to route them depending on the results of that analysis.
"We extract information that is relevant to a certain industry — for example for a consumer industry it's very interesting to detect purchase intent… whereas some other industries that rely heavily on customer service it's important to understand which comments are more urgent… This is the adaptations that allow us to extract actionable data," he adds.
