Avatarnthom58Stanford University Stanford team behind BS gaydar AI says facial recognition can expose political orientation verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneStanford researcher Michael Kosinski, the PhD behind the infamous “Gaydar” AI, is back with another phrenology-adjacent (his team swears it’s not phrenology) bit of pseudo-scientific ridiculousness. This...
Avatarnthom58Clearview AI The Promise and Peril of Facial Recognition The Wall Street Journal. - Floyd Abrams, Lee WoloskyFederal, state and local law-enforcement agencies are using facial-recognition technology to identify the members of the mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol last week. Elsewhere, facial recognition and...
Avatarnthom58Facial Recognition Facial recognition reveals political party in troubling new research verified_publisherTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyResearchers have created a machine learning system that they claim can determine a person’s political party, with reasonable accuracy, based only on their face. The study, from a group that also showed...
Avatarnthom58U.S. Armed Forces The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneThe US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army’s corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper...
Avatarnthom58Facial Recognition Outlandish Stanford facial recognition study claims there are links between facial features and political orientation verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersA paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports by controversial Stanford-affiliated researcher Michal Kosinski claims to show that facial recognition algorithms can expose people’s political...