A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Agreed on all points, but “improve the tech” probably belongs in quotes. If there’s no real consequences, they may just accept some empty promises and continue as before.
Just listened to a podcast with a couple of guys talking about the AI thing going on. One thing they said was really interesting to me. I’ll paraphrase my understanding of what they said:
So basically AI was meandering around trying to find the right road, and in 2020 it found a road that goes a long way in a straight line, enabling the industry to just floor the accelerator.
The direct relationship this model creates between more neurons/weights/parameters on the one hand, and more intelligence on the other, creates an almost arbitrage-easy way to absorb tons of money into profitable structures.