Eternal Sunshine of the Mechanical Mind: The Irreconcilability of Machine Learning and the Right to be Forgotten

As we keep rapidly advancing toward an era where artificial intelligence is a constant and normative experience for most of us, we must also be aware of what this vision and this progress entail. By first approximating neural connections and activities in computer circuits and then creating more and more sophisticated versions of this crude approximation, we are now facing an age to come where modern deep learning-based artificial intelligence systems can rightly be called thinking machines, and they are sometimes even lauded for their emergent behavior and black-box approaches. But as we create more powerful electronic brains, with billions of neural connections and parameters, can we guarantee that these mammoths built of artificial neurons will be able to forget the data that we store in them? If they are at some level like a brain, can the right to be forgotten still be protected while dealing with these AIs? The essential gap between machine learning and the RTBF is explored in this article, with a premonition of far-reaching conclusions if the gap is not bridged or reconciled any time soon. The core argument is that deep learning models, due to their structure and size, cannot be expected to forget or delete a data as it would be expected from a tabular database, and they should be treated more like a mechanical brain, albeit still in development

Uncovering local aggregated air quality index with smartphone captured images leveraging efficient deep convolutional neural network

The prevalence and mobility of smartphones make these a widely used tool for environmental health research. However, their potential for determining aggregated air quality index (AQI) based on PM2.5 concentration in specific locations remains largely unexplored in the existing literature. In this paper, we thoroughly examine the challenges associated with predicting location-specific PM2.5 concentration using images taken with smartphone cameras. The focus of our study is on Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, due to its significant air pollution levels and the large population exposed to it. Our research involves the development of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN), which we train using over a thousand outdoor images taken and annotated. These photos are captured at various locations in Dhaka, and their labels are based on PM2.5 concentration data obtained from the local US consulate, calculated using the NowCast algorithm. Through supervised learning, our model establishes a correlation index during training, enhancing its ability to function as a Picture-based Predictor of PM2.5 Concentration (PPPC). This enables the algorithm to calculate an equivalent daily averaged AQI index from a smartphone image. Unlike, popular overly parameterized models, our model shows resource efficiency since it uses fewer parameters. Furthermore, test results indicate that our model outperforms popular models like ViT and INN, as well as popular CNN-based models such as VGG19, ResNet50, and MobileNetV2, in predicting location-specific PM2.5 concentration. Our dataset is the first publicly available collection that includes atmospheric images and corresponding PM2.5 measurements from Dhaka. Our code and dataset will be made public when publishing the paper.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Nature Scientific Report

Uncovering local aggregated air quality index with smartphone captured images leveraging efficient deep convolutional neural network

<p>Short Description:</p> <p>In this research, we vigorously analyze the difficulties of predicting location-specific PM2.5 concentration from photos captured by smartphone cameras. Here, we particularly focus on Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, considering its very high level of air pollution exposure to a huge number of its dwellers. In our research, we develop a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) and train it using more than a thousand outdoor photos captured and labeled by us. We capture the photos at various locations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and label them based on PM2.5 concentration data extracted from the local US consulate as computed by the NowCast algorithm. During training with the dataset, our model learns a correlation index through supervised learning, which improves the model's ability to act as a Picture-based Predictor of PM2.5 Concentration (PPPC) making it capable of detecting comparable daily aggregated AQI index from a photo captured by a smartphone.</p> <p>Code and More Details: https://github.com/lepotatoguy/aqi</p&gt