NYC Man Was Jailed for Days Because of a Blurry CCTV Image and a Faulty AI Match
Flawed tech, false ID, and two days behind bars: how it happened anyway.
Tag: facial recognition
Machine learning is bringing back an infamous pseudoscience used to fuel racism
The pseudoscientific practice of physiognomy, dismissed as junk science centuries ago, is seeing a high-tech revival.
Hearing the unseen: device translates pictures into sound, allowing blind people to ‘hear’ faces
The new device converts images into sounds, enabling blind people to identify faces using auditory cues.
Facial recognition software can diagnose rare genetic disease with 96% accuracy
It's similar to how Facebook's facial tracking algorithm works, only much more useful.
