For the last year, the people of Hangzhou, China – a city of more than nine million – have had every moment of their lives tracked. “City Brain,” an artificial intelligence system that interlinks with a city’s infrastructure was installed in October 2016, through a partnership with Alibaba and Foxconn. In an effort to optimize Hangzhou and make urban life easier, the system tracked everything from robberies to traffic jams and learned the city’s unique patterns and needs. The system can predict traffic jams and adjust the traffic lights in order to avoid congestion before it begins. The system is also hooked up to residents’ cell phones and can alert them of bad weather or traffic jams and offer safer routes.

Source: Fox News October 27, 2017 06:00 UTC