Shocking.
Imagine a society in which corps routinely spy on the population AND THEN SELL THAT SPYING TO THE GOVERNMENT!!
Spying, of course, is something that should only ever be done by the private sector. Once government becomes involved it is automatically evil.
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Question: how good is it in uncontrolled environments like outside where lighting and face angles can be variable? Those conditions really determine how useful facial recognition is.
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Peter Kelley Images can be run through AI to “correct” for any environmental effects.
Food for thought: The CIA has a $600M secret contract with Amazon and Jeff Bezos. They are deploying dystopian tools and trying to get “Alexa” into every room of your home, but everything is fine. Nothing to see here.
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Peter Kelley things are already pretty advanced. Dealing with variations like these is literally what they spend all their time and machine learning budgets on.
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When you look at all of the reports of false positives out of the UK I think that the state of the art has a way to go. Of course this creates it’s own issues.
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Peter Kelley this is no doubt true but as with all of the HiTech promises, they do become true eventually. After watching progress in machine learning for twenty I dismissed it just at the point where it was starting to have really big successes. I won’t underestimate it again.
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John Hardy Turnbull delenda est I agree they will get there. At the moment the performance is limited by the camera technology available.
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The problem right now is mistaken identification. The problem in the very imminent future is flawless identification of everyone. The latter is much worse in my opinion.
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