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artificial intelligence is spining its way into all sorts of gadgets and you can build some smart gadgets yourself with new google aiy kits google's aiy vision kit lets you build a camera that can detect faces and emotions so it knows when you're smiling the camera also has a face tracker to lock on to a subject it can also be programmed to recognize certain objects it processes this info on its own without talking to the cloud and it comes with a Raspberry Pi zero WH microcomputer and other accessories to start programming right away this is a follow up to Google's voice kit that came out last year it lets you experiment with voice recognition you program what words you want it to recognize and connect it to something that you want to control motors lights even a train both kits are sold at Target the vision kit is roughly $90 and the voice kit is about 50 bucks these kids arrive just as chip makers are starting to talk more about putting AI processors into more mid-range phones and laptops so it's not just the high-end stuff that's getting new tricks you're gonna see more security cameras that can be smart enough to only act when it notices something strange instead of recording a constant stream of video and smart speakers with AI chips will be able to do a better job of understanding your commands faster drones can be better at avoiding obstacles or following a moving subject processors themselves are not getting that much faster but AI is giving processors new quick thinking smarts that may give you a reason to upgrade I'm Bridget Carey for more on artificial intelligence pedasi Netcom