Face Recognition

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China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.
Face Recognition

China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.

China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.

August 30, 20232 min read
China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.
Face Recognition

China Restricts Face Recognition: China's internet watchdog unveiled draft rules on face recognition.

China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.

August 30, 20232 min read
Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.
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Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.

A major company is using face recognition to settle scores. MSG Entertainment, which operates large entertainment venues in several cities in the United States, used face recognition to block its perceived enemies from attending events...

January 11, 20232 min read
Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.
Face Recognition

Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.

A major company is using face recognition to settle scores. MSG Entertainment, which operates large entertainment venues in several cities in the United States, used face recognition to block its perceived enemies from attending events...

January 11, 20232 min read
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims

From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.

August 10, 20222 min read
Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims
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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims

From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.

August 10, 20222 min read
Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War
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Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War

Face recognition is identifying people who have been killed, displaced, or recorded perpetrating alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearview AI made its face recognition system freely available to the Ukrainian government.

April 13, 20222 min read
Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War
Face Recognition

Seeing Through the Fog of War: How Clearview AI is Being Used in the 2022 Ukraine War

Face recognition is identifying people who have been killed, displaced, or recorded perpetrating alleged war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Clearview AI made its face recognition system freely available to the Ukrainian government.

April 13, 20222 min read
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
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The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.

People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.

March 23, 20222 min read
The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.
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The Many Faces of Genetic Illness: Face recognition identifies childhood genetic diseases.

People with certain genetic disorders share common facial features. Doctors are using computer vision to identify such syndromes in children so they can get early treatment.

March 23, 20222 min read
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
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Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.

Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.

February 2, 20222 min read
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
Face Recognition

Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.

Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.

February 2, 20222 min read
Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.
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Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.

Some of the world’s largest corporations will use standardized criteria to evaluate AI systems that influence hiring and other personnel decisions.

January 26, 20222 min read
Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.
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Standards for Hiring Algorithms: Met, Walmart, and more agree to hiring algorithm standards.

Some of the world’s largest corporations will use standardized criteria to evaluate AI systems that influence hiring and other personnel decisions.

January 26, 20222 min read
U.S. Adults Fail AI 101
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U.S. Adults Fail AI 101

Most Americans don’t understand AI, according to a new survey. Only 16 percent of adults in the United States got a passing grade on a true-or-false questionnaire of AI’s capabilities and uses.

January 5, 20222 min read

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