The Hikvision Smart Classroom Behavior Management System

Since we are on Chinese education, the topic of academic performance is likely to come up and the oft-repeated claim that China students are better than US ones.

For a contrary view from a Professor at China's top business school see Bloomberg's China's Top Economic Risk? Education article, key quotes:

headline-grabbing studies showing China's prowess on standardized tests evaluated only kids in rich and unrepresentative areas. When its broader population was included, China's ranking dropped across all subject areas.

According to the 2010 census, less than 9 percent of Chinese had attended school beyond the secondary level. More than 65 percent had gone no further than junior high. From 2008 to 2016, China's total number of graduate students actually decreased by 1 percent. Outside the richest areas, much of China's population lacks even the basic skills required in a high-income economy.

China is famous for requiring rote memorization of its students. But schools are also increasing classwork on communist ideology, Confucian thought and even Traditional Chinese Medicine. 

The image shows all the asian kids being serious and the caucasion kid is goofing off. i am deeply offended by that.... J/K, i think its hilarious.

Back on topic, i dont get excited about all this bleeding edge technology anymore. Normally it simply doesn't work anywhere close to what customers expect. Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

 When you have it, use it.

Thankfully GDPR will prevent this to happen in European schools :)

ASIS should partner with Hikvision and deploy this inside their GSX learning sessions.

Does it matter if it works? To me what matters is that this use case was thought enough about to attempt it. Now think about all of the other possibilities that can be applied to this type of technology. Innovation comes from these basic beginnings. And sometimes innovation is scary. 

Data is powerful and lucrative. If there is a desire (demand) to identify trends, detect anomalies, etc., someone is going to try and build the solution (supply). Once the behaviors can be measured, they can be predicted. Maybe it won't be Hikvision, but eventually somebody may succeed at this.

Phillip K. Dick's precog psychics may have been a stretch but the idea of predicting behavior is upon us. Call Tom Cruise, reactivate the PreCrime unit.

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AI is one of those things that are too useful to discard and too dangerous to take lightly ...

Under the guise of improving scholastic performance we are supposed to be watching a child emotions... to what purpose? Who's watching the watchers ...

As dystopian as it gets, creepy doesn't even begin to qualify it.