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AI detects when a student naps during classes

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AI detects when a student naps during classes

Developed by a University in Japan, an AI detects when a student naps during classes. Once again, AIs are generating controversy on all sides.

This AI is being criticized by many people who question its ethics and possible misuses. On the other hand, more people want this system to be proactively implemented in the National Diet of Japan. Many opinions imply that people napping at work are more important than students taking a nap.

AI detects when a student naps during classes

The AI ​​in question was developed by professors at Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, a national university specializing in teacher training.

The system uses AI and a thermal camera that can measure the body temperature of several people at the same time and perform analysis of participants’ body postures.

AI detects when a student naps during classes

According to the system’s developers, it was created as a means of collecting data on the frequency and time at which students nap or get up from their chairs during classes, with the aim of improving class content.

In a real-life test, the system achieves over 90% accuracy in differentiating between the three actions of sitting, standing, and resting the upper body on a table.

In a press conference, the leader of the project, Professor Fumio Nakaya, explained that the system aims to facilitate the collection of data that will be used to train educators and improve the quality of lesson plans.

He also mentioned that since the thermal imager cannot capture people’s faces, students’ privacy is not at risk. Below is an opinion:

”I can’t think of that as the right direction to go. Classrooms are becoming increasingly deprived of breathing space. I think if I lived with the awareness that I was constantly being watched by machines, I would go crazy”

While the developers’ intentions appear to be more scientific than anything else, reactions from the Japanese public have been mixed, with many finding the idea of ​​monitoring students in this way disturbing and feeling that things may be heading in a ”dystopian” direction. ”.

Above all, most users seemed to agree with the sentiment that students napping should not be treated as a problem and should be left alone.

While some found potential positive uses of the AI ​​system, such as alerting drowsy drivers and preventing traffic accidents, some also hypothesized about possible misuses. How the system eventually becoming a basis for evaluating students and hurting their performance.

The possibility that the system contributes to better class content has also been questioned by some, as students’ sleep can be caused by exhaustion from part-time work or extracurricular activities and has nothing to do with the educator’s skill or learning plan. classroom.

”All good! Let’s introduce this into the National Diet and reduce their salary by 10,000 yen every time they nap”

Unlike students napping through classes they paid for on their own, members of the National Diet of Japan often napping during assemblies while receiving taxpayer money seems to be much more on the public’s mind. As a result, many are asking to introduce this system in the National Diet, and not in schools.

Starting with celebrities like Beat Kiyoshi, users chimed in one by one to support the opinion, with the majority of comments on Twitter reacting to the article mentioning the National Diet in one way or another.

”Government: Hey, is your system experiencing some kind of bug?

Osaka Kyoiku Uni: No, is it working normally?

Government: But you’re saying that 100% of the members are sleeping, it can’t be, right?

Osaka Kyoiku Uni: ”

It is very easy to find videos of members of the National Diet napping during the assemblies, such as this one:

Though news of the AI ​​system designed to detect students napping or moving away from their desks was dominated by humorous calls for it to be used in the Diet. Many still demonstrate that they are uncomfortable with this idea.

Via: Automaton

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