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Google: Our New System For Recognizing Faces Is the Best
schwit1 writes Last week, a trio of Google researchers published a paper on a new artificial intelligence system dubbed FaceNet that it claims represents the most accurate approach yet to recognizing human faces. FaceNet achieved nearly 100-percent accuracy on a popular facial-recognition dataset called Labeled Faces in the Wild, which includes more than 13,000 pictures of faces from across the web. Trained on a massive 260-million-image dataset, FaceNet performed with better than 86 percent accuracy.
The approach Google's researchers took goes beyond simply verifying whether two faces are the same. Its system can also put a name to a face—classic facial recognition—and even present collections of faces that look the most similar or the most distinct. Every advance in facial recognition makes me think of Paul Theroux's dystopian Ozone.
The approach Google's researchers took goes beyond simply verifying whether two faces are the same. Its system can also put a name to a face—classic facial recognition—and even present collections of faces that look the most similar or the most distinct. Every advance in facial recognition makes me think of Paul Theroux's dystopian Ozone.
The NSA and CIA must love the direction this company has taken.
FaceNet achieved nearly 100-percent accuracy...
" performed with better than 86 percent accuracy. "
I'm not able to parse these numbers, or I have a misunderstanding as to what nearly means.
I'm a satanic clam.
on really BAD ideas and freedom-killing ideas?
you don't think this will be mostly used against us, one way or another?
do no evil? yeah, right. I have this bridge here I can sell you...
yet another example of 'lets plow ahead and not care about social blowback from our research'. scientists and engineers really need to go back to school and take an ETHICS course or two. maybe they'd realize that 'because you can, does not mean you should'.
I see nothing good coming from this. nothing at all. just pure evil to be used against people.
it takes a wise person to realize that some things should not be done. of course, google has geniuses but those geniuses have no idea at all how they are being played and how their work will be used to reduce freedom and privacy. sad that smart people can be conned into working against their own best interests ;(
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Yup, that's a face. I'd recognize one of those things anywhere.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
But how will they ever tag neckbeards? There's too much data interference to get a good analysis of the face for the neural network. Neckbeards will take over us all and be immune to surveillance. We'll have to go back to reading license plates of cars at Taco Bell at 3am.
I'm a satanic clam.
how about instead, when Google face recognition blinks green, it provides the SSN and path to school for Sergey or Larry, instead of me. doesn't that sound appropriate?
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I wouldn't mind getting my hand on their API. I am almost done with SkyNet. I just needed better face matching... Too many accidents.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Now do you understand Google+'s initial policy on real names?
Pete Boyd
Hmm... you're right, we have to get that under control.
Get the PR dept to slap together a press kit. What we need is footage of some murderers and generally insane people with neckbeards. Make sure that you add a few shots of those islamist loonies, they're full of face wool, too. Tell them to not waste all their powder on one shot, have them release it slowly so it can sink in with the targets. Try to get that Stallman guy in there too, somehow, that way we might get a shot at that open source stuff where we can't sensibly include our backdoors. At least with the boomers it should stick, they know jack about computers but trust the TV.
Networks should gobble this up without asking, it's free news, that's all they care about.
For the millennials, try to get the story into one of those "10 things you didn't know" pages. Slap something together about 10 things you don't know about neckbeards, 10 most heinous murderers (of course you pick the neckbeard fraction), get creative! They'll love it.
Find celebrities and make sure they hate beards. Beards have to become "uncool". Only clean shaven guys get the chicks. And guys, let's not forget the fags.
Get back to me when this is rolling, maybe we don't even have to do more.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This would help people like me, who can't put names to faces or fail to notice when a face is the same as the one I saw last year... Perfect Glass application.
That sounds good. The problem is, and will always be, that you may have the right ethics handled, but somewhere else, someone doesn't, and they'll just create and use the tech against you in an environment where you've not looked at it in a real world sense, and properly compensated for it to the extent that is possible.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Scientists and engineers are by definition not supposed to be ethical.
"I just invented the bomb. I didn't drop it."
--Brice, Max Headroom Episode 1 "Blipverts", 1987
Reference (in particular, the third video clip): http://www.avclub.com/article/...
Back then that line was meant as tongue-in-cheek humor, funny because of its ridiculousness Depressing that we've degenerated so far that you've actually said the equivalent with all seriousness. (The same could be said for many things in that once funny, now prophetic series.)
As engineers and scientists we do NOT check our humanity at the door, or our ethics. At least, good engineers and scientists do not.
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