DeepFace

[Kramodlog]

Is not what you think.

Facebook has made a facial recognition tool that is 97,25% accurate.

This summer, Facebook will present a paper at a computer vision conference revealing how it has created a tool almost as accurate as the human brain when it comes to saying whether two photographs show the same person – regardless of changes in lighting and camera angles.A human being will get the answer correct 97.53% of the time; Facebook's new technology scores an impressive 97.25%."We closely approach human performance," says Yaniv Taigman, a member of its AI team.

Does this worry you? Should this be made illegal? Did sci-fi authors predict this future? Is the problem with the current panopticon being erected the lack of transparency from political and economic elites rather than the lost of privacy for the rest of us?

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Yes and no. Such a development was foreseeable, so no surprise, no worries. On the other hand this is a case where technology develops much further than society. Add the ubiquitiousness of surveillance cameras (in several countires for the moment) and the idea of privacy is dead. And this does worry me.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I guess we really are headed for truly targeted marketing. We have monitors that can display multiple screens at the same time and at full size (granted that requires glasses) and now we'll be able to program them to recognize a face, search a database tied to the face and then play an ad from a selected group to that face. Even more reason to never, ever go to a mall.