insert_link Tech Made Simple How Much Can We Trust Facial Recognition Technology? It’s easy to be alarmist about facial recognition, but at the end of the day, it’s a simple matching system. The algorithm establishes a set of features and looks for matches, just like a search engine or a speech-to-text system. The problems come with how people use that capability — whether it’s commercial marketing or, more controversially, police surveillance. Those problems get particularly bad if you don’t use the […] todayJuly 30, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Amazon’s Rekognition Still Showing Signs of Racial Bias As facial recognition systems become more common, Amazon has emerged as a frontrunner in the field, courting customers around the US, including police departments and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But experts say the company is not doing enough to allay fears about bias in its algorithms, particularly when it comes to performance on faces with darker skin. In research published by MIT’s Joy Buolamwini last February, which identified similar […] todayJanuary 30, 2019
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