Google’s New Facial Recognition System
March 19th, 2015Via: Fortune:
New advances in facial recognition are a step forward for an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning.
“I never forget a face,” some people like to boast. It’s a claim that looks quainter by the day as artificial intelligence research continues to advance. Some computers, it turns out, never forget 260 million faces.
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As consumer robots, driverless cars and smart homes become real, deep learning will be there, too, providing the eyes, ears, and some of the brains for our new toys. DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense’s research agency, is also investigating how deep learning techniques might be able to help it make sense of the streams of communications crossing intelligence networks everyday.
Something tells me it’s looking at Google’s FaceNet and getting pretty excited, too.
Related: How The CIA Made Google
It’s getting to the point where I don’t want to go near public events or even supermarkets, with everyone and their dog seemingly using smart phones to take selfies with me in the background. Sooner or later, my mugshot will end up being flagged and tagged (if not already) every time some of these automatons posts an image to Facebook.
That’s the general idea Freeman, said Captain Obvious.
If you can’t put everyone in prison for their thoughtcrime(s), then the trick is to bring the prison to them.
Trackable technologies abound.
The RFID chip in every US passport is unavoidable. Made a point of renewing ahead of the rollout deadline in 2006, but this time around (2016) I’ll have no choice, Already have a thin lead-lined pouch.
Cars have become super-computers with engines, can be shut down externally, and are about to start “driving themselves”. Which is why our vehicle(s) are all early to mid-90’s vintage.
Sadly, avoiding (a)social media has become impossible to avoid, short of a complete “opt out” akin to a social “death sentence”. Everyone else is there. Despite the obvious dark side, its utility is unmistakable.
After many years of making excuses, some sort of measured compromise became a necessity late last year.
Hopefully, we can successfully skirt the fringes for the next decade or two. Taking advantage of the utility, but also doing our damnedest to create sizeable gaps in the data when we can.
And with a little luck, we won’t live long enough to see the moment when “SKYNET” becomes sentient and the drones turn on us all…