Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Facial Recognition Technology is not perfected enough for police use.

July 2, 2016
By Robinson Meyer

Facebook has also been thinking about faces. (click here) Last summer, the company’s artificial intelligence team announced that its facial-recognition software passed key tests with near human-level accuracy. Last week, it presented a further development: Yann LeCun, the AI team’s director, boasted that a different algorithm could identify people 83 percent of the time even if their faces were not in the picture. The program instead works from a person’s hairdo, posture, and body type....